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Astronomers in Flagstaff say thousands of satellites orbiting Earth can interfere with their research and images of the stars.

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Dust from open cast mining suffocates surrounding forests and inhibits trees' ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere ...

Starlink is the name of a satellite network developed by the ... likened the impact of megaconstellations on astronomy to light pollution. The report said the sky may brighten by a factor of ...

NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Arctic Ocean ... Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR), Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT), and Moderate Resolution Imaging ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

A recent push by the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been illuminating, to say the least.

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As the year draws to a close, satellite images from Maxar Technologies have ... which transformed the City of Light into a vast sports complex. As part of the preparations, organizers built ...