Astronomers will find it harder to find alien existence due to the number of satellites that are cluttering up the sky, experts have said.
There are now more than 8,000 satellites that are orbiting the Earth which is a dramatic increase over the past few years and in a decade it is expected to be a real problem for astronomers to see into space.
In four years the number of satellites in the sky have quadrupled and it is worrying scientists that this growth is continuing exponentially and soon they will block out the stars.
This comes as another 400,000 satellites that have been given the go ahead for Low Earth Orbit.
Satellites also make it more difficult for astronomers as they reflect sunlight back to Earth and prevent telescopes peering deep into space.
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