The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) oversee spy satellites and analyse imagery for the Pentagon and other intelligence organisations ...

For all his faults, Elon Musk sure knows how to keep things interesting. Yesterday, skies around the world lit up with what ...

Scientists in China have transmitted encrypted images a record 12,900 kilometers, paving the way for quantum messaging ...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick proposed changes to a federal broadband connectivity program that would favor Low Earth Orbit ...

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

Monday’s SpaceX launch was carrying a classified satellite to space, but the secret payload was not the cause of an unusual ...

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...