Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

The Falcon 9 rocket flying the mission, Starlink 11-7, carried a total of 27 satellites to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force ...

Satellites serve many purposes while they orbit above the Earth, but as they do so, how fast do they actually move? The ...

Who's up for a historic late-night launch? Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a spacecraft carrying the first people to ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

Who's up for a historic late-night launch? Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a spacecraft carrying the first people to orbit the earth's poles Monday.

The Space Force is clearly a military organization, separate from NASA's exploratory governmental organization—unlike Star ...

The first satellite in a constellation designed specifically to locate wildfires early and precisely anywhere on the planet has now reached Earth's orbit, and it could forever change how we tackle ...

Rocket Lab launched eight wildfire detection satellites from New Zealand March 26, lofting the "Finding a Wildfire near you" ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

China is practicing “dogfighting” satellites as part of its expanding capabilities in space, according to the United States ...

As Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...