U.S. and Chinese spacecraft are routinely dueling as far as 22,000 miles from Earth as militarization escalates in orbit.

The space around Earth has become increasingly cluttered with decades of accumulated debris left over from rocket launches, ...

Satellites have come a long way in the last couple years, and what you learned about them in school is likely far different ...

A new study warns that massive solar storms could trigger a catastrophic chain of satellite collisions in low-Earth orbit ...

Space may seem infinite, but it looks like things are getting a little crowded in low Earth orbit. Michael Nicolls, ...

Europe demonstrated its space autonomy yet again on December 17, with its Ariane 6 rocket successfully placing two more ...

Satellite streaks could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

SpaceX claims that a Chinese Kinetica 1 rocket launch from Tuesday, Dec. 9 passed within 200 meters of one of its Starlink ...

A new paper has taken a look at the orbits of megaconstellations around Earth, and found that we may be tiptoeing dangerously ...

The closer to Earth a satellite flies, the clearer a picture it can take of the surface. But low-flying satellites also have ...

Satellite streaks could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

In the vast expanse of our universe, the next frontier in space exploration is not as far away as you might think. Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellites, operating at altitudes between 60 to 250 ...