PHOENIX — A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble that its backers say can be built ...

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective door off the iconic white dome at Lick Observatory. Now, with back-to-back ...

In order for NASA to study the mysteries of the universe, the scientists there need to be able to look out into the cosmos. The Hubble Space Telescope did this for a time, giving humanity some ...

The article details the successful construction of an 8-inch f/5 Newtonian Dobsonian telescope, named the Leavitt, primarily utilizing accessible consumer-grade 3D printing technology for its ...

Day 13 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Sea of Galaxies. The James Webb Space Telescope pointed its Near-Infrared Camera toward the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 and captured this ...

Satellites reflect sunlight, Earthshine, infrared and radio waves. A new NASA-led study shows that the increasing number of satellites in low-Earth orbit could ruin up to 96% of images from some ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications including broadband access in rural and remote ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A dramatic rise in the number of internet satellites ...

On Wednesday, three NASA astronomers released an analysis showing that several planned orbital telescopes would see their images criss-crossed by planned satellite constellations, such as a fully ...

Light reflected from satellites pollutes the images taken by telescopes orbiting Earth, as well as those on the ground. Without mitigations, this will only get worse. Read the paper: Satellite ...

Even telescopes far above Earth can’t avoid the contamination caused by commercial satellites. The findings are “truly frightening”, says Patrick Seitzer, an astronomer at the University of Michigan ...

Today the globe is circled by thousands of active satellites—each prone to photobombing astronomers’ telescopes as an artificial star zipping across the night sky. Scientists working with ground-based ...