New Zealand's rapidly growing space industry, driven by private ventures, faces challenges with light pollution affecting Indigenous astronomy. Balancing economic growth and environmental protection ...

Global light pollution has increased by at least 49% over 25 years, new research shows. This figure only includes light visible via satellites, and scientists estimate the true increase may be ...

Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening night skies on our planet significantly more than previously understood. The ...

More than 99% of Americans live under skies polluted by light. This pervasive artificial glow obscures stars and the constellations they form. It hides our galaxy, the Milky Way, from four in every ...

Over the next decade, 96% of images from some space observatories in low Earth orbit will be affected by light pollution from ...

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 ...

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

When Eduardo Unda-Sanzana arrived in Chile’s Atacama Desert to teach astronomy, the darkness was disorienting. The remote location of the small observatory at Catholic University of the North made it ...

Artificial light, while beneficial to humans, has disrupted the natural day-night cycle and created light pollution, negatively affecting wildlife. Humans also suffer from light pollution, ...