Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other ...

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

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There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters will also contaminate observations by four space telescopes, including Hubble ...

U.S. and Chinese satellites routinely spy on each other in orbit, rehearsing for more aggressive operations in the event of ...

This poses "a very severe threat" to space telescopes, the study's lead author, Alejandro Borlaff of the NASA Ames Research Center in California, told AFP. For the research, the astronomers simulated ...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) will send another batch of Amazon's Monday morning (Dec. 15), and you can watch the action live — if you're a night owl or a very early riser. A ULA Atlas V rocket ...

Starlink satellites are visible from Earth, you just need to know when and where to look.

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could contaminate almost all the images taken by space telescopes, NASA astronomers ...