The satellite is safely on its way to geostationary orbit, but one of the rocket's four strap-on side boosters fell to Earth in a populated ... Chinese rocket booster falls from space, crashes ...

The satellite quickly burnt up as it passed ... As this space junk falls through Earth's atmosphere, most if not all of the components will break off and burn up, leading to little risk for ...

The cause of the strange blue spiral is actually a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 ...

Paris – The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 per cent, the European Space Agency said on Feb 25. A week ago ...

POES satellites orbit the earth 14 times each day at an altitude of approximately 520 miles (870 km). As each orbit is made the satellite can view a 1,600 mile (2,700 km) wide area of the earth.

Starlink satellites are visible from Earth, you just need to know when and where to look. The "Starlink satellite train" has become a captivating sight for skywatchers, offering a glimpse of the ...

Satellite imagery provides a unique perspective ... Every week, we take a bird's eye view of Earth, and see how it affects the people living on it.

If the satellite is launched fast enough it never falls to Earth. Above a speed of 8000m/s the surface of the Earth curves away just as fast as the satellite falls due to gravity pulling on it.

A camera at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii has captured an object as it burned up on re-entering Earth's atmosphere ... It is thought it could be a Chinese satellite called Object K.

A fragment of an out-of-control SpaceX Starlink satellite smashed into a farm in Canada last year, New Scientist can reveal – raising questions about the risks of de-orbiting space junk.

Global copper smelting fell for the first time in four months in February due to lower activity of plants outside the world’s top copper refiner China, data from satellite surveillance showed on ...