A new scientific clock warns Earth’s crowded orbits could trigger satellite collisions within days, as megaconstellations ...

A newly launched Spanish satellite, valued at $1 billion, has been struck by a space particle while on its journey to its operational orbit, raising concerns about Spain’s military communication ...

Reflections cast by a growing number of satellites orbiting the Earth could ruin more than 95% of images taken by some space telescopes in the next decade, according to a NASA-led study. The reflected ...

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

Satellites are our only insight into the ongoing conflict — and worth protecting.

Earth's orbital environment is becoming increasingly crowded. Thousands of satellites—many of them inactive, damaged, or out of fuel—now circle the planet alongside fragments of debris from past ...

India’s first homegrown cosmic dust detector, called the Dust EXperiment (DEX), has revealed that tiny particles from space are constantly hitting instruments in orbit. These microscopic ...

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