While the Gemini North Telescope may be at a high enough elevation to avoid light pollution, it has another issue that might interfere with its readings: satell ...

SpaceX’s efforts to dim its Starlink satellites will likely be effective, at least for one major observatory. But the brightness concern about mega constellations hasn’t gone away.

The Vera Rubin telescope, which is set to open its eyes to the sky later this month, has a 26-foot-wide (8.4 meters) mirror, one of the largest in the world. It's also fitted with the largest camera ...

China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites, known as SJ-21 and SJ-25 for short, likely docked together in geosynchronous ...

rather than the sprawling telescope they used. He also speculated that because Relay 2 was an early satellite, it might be that the materials it’s made of are more prone to a buildup of static charge ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

The 20cm Adler Imager telescope will capture images of space objects, HEO senior partnerships manager Joann Yap said, and ...

Plus, with Saturn making its return to the night sky next week after spending the last few months as a 'morning star', the ...

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), local spin-off company Spaceoptix, and satellite communications specialist Tesat have been working on the ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...