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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, known for recording awe-inspiring images of the cosmos while advancing the field of astronomy, is under threat. Private companies are launching thousands of satellites ...

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 ...

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.

Astronomers who work in the radio portion of the electromagnetic spectrum face extra challenges when it comes to satellites. Big radio telescopes are typically located in remote regions, to be as ...

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 ...

Time-lapse image shows the passage of a Starlink satellite cluster (bright streaks) through a telescope’s field of view at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile in November 2019.

Starlink satellites can interfere with radio telescopes by leaking excess radiation, according to a study from European astronomers.. The astronomers warn that second-generation Starlink ...

But for wide-field telescopes like the 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope at theVera Rubin Observatory, currently nearing completion in Chile, he says, “it’s going to be a real headache.” ...

An issue with modern segmented telescopes is keeping each section of the mirror stable. Now, an MIT team has suggested using a miniature satellite the size of a shoebox with a simple laser which ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.