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 ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

Satellite operators need better space weather models to maximize the life of their satellites and to avoid collisions in low ...

Current satellite internet works using large spacecraft that orbit 22,236 miles (35,786 km) above a particular spot on Earth. But at that distance, there are generally significant time delays in ...

That same year, a Chinese satellite "grappled" one of the nation's defunct satellites and towed it into a "graveyard orbit." ...

The current state of Earth's climate has no recorded precedent. The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic ...

While LEO satellites have emerged as an important component of global connectivity, they require a new computing cloud, the ...

The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of satellites orbiting the planet by the end of the century, a new study has ...

The £5m award comes from the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme, designed to invest in high-potential ...

"In terms of fire detection, that is a dramatic, hundred-fold difference from current systems," said Collins ... the ground ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory has introduced the "Spacecraft Speedometer," a novel technology for tracking satellites in ...