California startup Reflect Orbital received clearance to launch its first satellite, aiming to build a constellation to ...

The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an ...

For now, a single satellite has been cleared for a test demonstration, but the company making it hopes to eventually launch ...

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for ...

A giant mirror to create “sunlight on demand” was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), ...

Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society said it would be "absolutely the destruction of a central part of human ...

Go out at night when the sky is clear and take a look around more often than not, you'll see fewer stars than your grandparents did when they were young. And this isn't just an illusion; satellite ...

Bright mirrors and a million satellites could wash out the night sky, so an ESO study caps safe orbits at 100,000 faint craft.

Light pollution from proposed satellites will likely hinder ability to see celestial bodies at night and could impact ...