Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going ...
The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained ...
There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.
More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. If just one piece collides with a spacecraft, it can disrupt ...
China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket ...
Amazon is launching 27 satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) next week, kicking off its years-in-the-making plan to set up a ...
Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...
SpaceX has yet to confirm, but the Federal Aviation Administration shows a launch window for the Starlink 6-72 mission occurring sometime between 10:40 p.m. Saturday night and 3:11 a.m. Sunday morning ...
SpaceX lifted off a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit on Saturday night, April 5 ...
As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...
In some ways, the stars above us are the ultimate equalizer: we're all equally far away, we all share the right to look up at them; and, tiny glittering pinpoints that they are, when we ...
A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...