diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/astropy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/astropy/default.nix
index 4814e1e70c40..29f451af3358 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/astropy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/astropy/default.nix
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     # May fail due to parallelism, see:
     # https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/15441
     "TestUnifiedOutputRegistry"
+
+    # fail due to pytest>=8
+    # https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues/15960#issuecomment-1913654471
+    "test_distortion_header"
   ];
 
   meta = {