The James Webb Space Telescope has observed Asteroid 2024 YR4 again, refining its trajectory and ruling out a potential collision with the moon in 2032. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening planetary defense.

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Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

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Space telescopes are facing increasing difficulties in realizing accurate, unpolluted images of the cosmos due to the growing number of internet satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). The problem is so ...

Commercial satellites in orbit, which are largely owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, are blocking images of the cosmos taken from both the ground and in space. A study released by Nature earlier this month ...

Reflections cast by a growing number of satellites orbiting the Earth could ruin more than 95% of images taken by some space telescopes in the next decade, according to a NASA-led study. The reflected ...

One in three images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope could be ruined if space companies’ plans to launch hundreds of thousands of satellites go ahead. More than three-quarters of the nearly 14,000 ...

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 ...