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

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

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

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 ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

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

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

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

A top Space Force general said Tuesday that commercial systems have observed Chinese satellites rehearsing “dogfighting” ...

While low Earth orbit satellites dominate now, there is still room for geostationary and medium Earth orbit constellations to ...

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...

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