Researchers have proposed a theoretical timepiece, dubbed the "CRASH Clock," which tells us how quickly satellites would ...

The Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilization and Technological Innovation in China filed a request with the International ...

In the last five years, the number of satellites orbiting Earth has more than doubled and will likely double again within a similar timespan, thanks to the efforts of private companies such as SpaceX.

Earth's orbiting satellites are commonly regarded as if they were suspended in mid-air. It is a fact that they actually ...

In 2026, thousands of Starlink satellites will begin a controlled descent to a lower orbit. This large-scale space migration ...

Often misunderstood as "hovering," satellites are actually in constant free-fall, perpetually missing Earth's surface as the planet curves away beneath them.

A debris field comprised of a Starlink satellite's remains is floating through space, after a minor explosion broke off pieces of the tech and sent them tumbling around Earth's orbit. Space X reported ...

Satellites detected a mysterious gravitational change beneath Earth's surface, suggesting rapid movement of interior masses.

There’s little about building spacecraft that anyone would call simple. But there’s at least one element of designing a vehicle that will operate outside the Earth’s atmosphere ...

A standard industrial knitting machine has been modified to produce fabrics from tungsten wire coated in gold, which are used ...

Earth-orbiting satellites could begin colliding with one another in less than three days in a worst-case-scenario scenario — potentially triggering a runaway cascade that may render low Earth orbit ...