For decades, geostationary orbit (GEO) was the undisputed home of satellite communications. From television broadcasts to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

SpaceX sent another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast this morning (May 10), its second launch in a little over six hours. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying ...