‘Alarming Increase’ in Satellites Is Making It Impossible for Astronomers to See Space ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth's orbital overcrowding is approaching a breaking point, according to a new analysis using a warning metric called the Crash ...

A new research paper produced by a team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory could be good news for engineers who design satellites, helping them figure out how to shield the equipment from ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...

Researchers believe the “quasi-satellite” has accompanied Earth since 1957.

Jeff Bezos-backed rocket business Blue Origin is to build TeraWave, a huge laser-linked satellite network with more than 5,400 low Earth orbiting satellites and ...

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 ...