Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

Starlink satellites are closer to us than the stars and appear brighter. Optical telescopes can only be used at night and light pollution from the first generation of satellites made it harder for ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced on Monday that it is spinning off wireless communications project Taara into an independent company.

Services such as SpaceX’s Starlink, by far the largest of the networks of telecommunications ... at stars and galaxies are ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

Starlink is the name of a satellite network ... likened the impact of megaconstellations on astronomy to light pollution. The report said the sky may brighten by a factor of two to three due ...

SpaceX's latest Starship flight test explosion raises concerns about space junk affecting Earth's stratosphere and ozone layer. Researchers highlight ...

With more satellite constellations soon to be in orbit, there needs to be a global dialogue about the unintended consequences of orbit crowding, light pollution and space debris. Since 2015 ...

Just one company, SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, has more than 7,000 operational Starlink satellites ... The satellite boom also poses other threats, including adding pollution to the atmosphere.