NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside ...

Germany and the United Kingdom have warned of the growing threat posed by Russian and Chinese space satellites, which have been regularly spotted spying on satellites used by Western powers. The ...

A Starlink satellite nearly collided with a Chinese satellite at 350 miles altitude, passing within just 650 feet of each other in low Earth orbit. PCWorld reports the Chinese satellite was launched ...

As Congress debates NASA’s 2026 budget, two small but mighty satellites hang in limbo: the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, specifically OCO-2 and OCO-3. Tasked with tracking carbon dioxide and plant ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit are de-orbiting and falling to Earth at the rate of one to two per day. If Starlink continues scaling up ...

The rapidly growing traffic of satellites in low Earth orbit is increasingly becoming vulnerable to space weather events and could tumble like a “house of cards” after a major solar storm, a new study ...

NASA’s Pandora satellite lifts off on SpaceX’s Twilight mission to study exoplanets and analyze their atmospheres with a ...

For decades, the military has relied on large, multi-ton satellites for global communications from geostationary orbit (GEO), a prime location 35,000 kilometers above Earth that provides unique ...

Starlink,a division of SpaceX, provides satellite internet around the world. It is ideal for those who live in rural areas as connection speeds are often improved over what local companies offer. It's ...

Russia is targeting UK space infrastructure, and in particular military satellites, on a weekly basis, according to the head of UK Space Command. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A little over a year ago, one of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft flew a team of four private astronauts to orbit on a mission that made history with the first fully commercial spacewalk. Jared ...

Low-earth orbit is home to around 14,000 satellites, a dramatic increase from around 4,000 in 2018. One major force behind the increased space congestion is tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink.