There are more than 2,000 satellites orbiting Earth right now. And there are about to be a lot more. But what does this mean?
Light pollution from the exploding number of satellites orbiting Earth is making it harder to peer into space.
The increasing number of satellites orbiting Earth is causing light pollution, disrupting the Hubble and other telescopes' ...
A new NASA-led study found that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from ...
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The Astronomical Problem of Space Junk

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...
Starcloud flew up the Nvidia H100 enterprise GPU on a test satellite on Nov. 2. Major players including SpaceX, Google, and ...
Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...
This poses "a very severe threat" to space telescopes, the study's lead author, Alejandro Borlaff of the NASA Ames Research ...
For the next few decades, a tiny asteroid will move quietly through space alongside Earth. This space rock, called 2025 PN7, ...
Millions of pieces of debris now circle Earth in space. Scientists are exploring new ways to remove them and protect future ...
China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...
NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...