A simulated image representing the projected contamination by satellite trails in one of the future space telescopes. The stripes of light reflected from artificial telecommunication satellites ...

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This is the first time humans have laid eyes on these deep space objects.

This illustration provided by NASA in December 2025 depicts the aftermath of a collision between two massive space rocks orbiting the star Fomalhaut. (NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford, Space Telescope ...

Thirty years ago this month, the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was trained on a tiny — 1/12th theapparent width of the Moon — seemingly empty patch of sky in Ursa Major. It took a series of 342 ...

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 ...

A family portrait of the Andromeda galaxy and its orbiting dwarf satellites raises questions about how galaxies evolve.