Follow Orion’s three belt stars southeast (down and to the left) to Sirius in Canis Major, the brightest star in the sky.

The constellation Auriga, also known as the Charioteer, is easily identifiable due to its bright star Capella (Alpha Aurigae). Visible in the Northern Hemisphere's evening sky from mid-autumn to ...

"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are launched?" ...

The report from the Satellite Constellations 1 (SATCON1) workshop, organized jointly by NSF’s NOIRLab and the American Astronomical Society (AAS), has been delivered to the National Science Foundation ...

A: During totality, and even for a short while before and after, you should be able to see the brightest stars and planets while the Sun is covered by the Moon. At the time of the August eclipse, the ...

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The number of satellites in space continues to rise due to the deployment of megaconstellations. For decades, humanity has ...

Thousands of satellites in the night sky are not only ruining the beauty of the stars, but are seriously hampering astronomers and pose a very serious space debris threat. When you purchase through ...

Members of the American Astronomical Society are speaking out about the potential for large satellite constellations, such as SpaceX’s Starlink network, to interfere with scientific observations of ...

NASA's report, published in Nature, predicts that around 40% of all Hubble images will have at least one satellite streak in them.

This image shows the first 60 Starlink satellites launched into orbit on May 23, 2019. They are shown still in their stacked configuration, just prior to being deployed. There are now over 1,000 ...

Large constellations of bright satellites in low-Earth orbit will “fundamentally change” astronomy that relies on ground-based telescopes – and could even change the appearance of our night sky as ...