A derelict Soviet-era spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 is set to hurtle back toward Earth after more than five decades in orbit ...

The wild growth rate of satellites in orbit, driven by companies like SpaceX, is expected to lead to as many as 25 to 50* reentries per day by 2035, creating a new delivery mechanism for pollutant ...

A little over 240 years ago, birds were the only things that could fly above the ground untethered without eventually falling ...

Called "Rendezvous and Proximity Operations," this kind of maneuvering is aimed at understanding satellites behavior or ...

Amazon is far behind SpaceX in the market for consumer broadband service from space. Amazon aims to launch 3,232 Kuiper ...

The launch is just the first of about 80 in the years ahead as Amazon continues to build its satellite constellation in ...

Amazon has launched its first operational Project Kuiper satellites in its attempt to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink—but ...

Discover how nearly two decades of satellite data—and the new Biomass mission—are helping scientists map forest carbon across ...

With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number of companies working to put more than 1,000 satellites each into space to create their own mega constellation.

The Russians indicated it came down over the Indian Ocean, but some experts were not so sure of the precise location.

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk, Grist explains. New research, published in Nature ...

A little more than 240 years ago, birds were the only things that could fly above the ground untethered without eventually ...