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

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

DiskSats use a flat design that can accommodate more gear than alternative like CubeSats. A NASA-funded demo mission launched ...

SpaceX's Starlink said it experienced an anomaly on satellite 35956 on Wednesday, which led to a loss of communications with ...

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

The first pair of Galileo navigation satellites to launch on an Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French ...

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

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully placed two satellites into orbit to join the EU's rival to the GPS navigation ...

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

Colorado-headquartered United Launch Alliance launched on Tuesday a fresh set of Amazon Internet satellites into orbit.

Delays in the development of Ariane 6, part of a broader European “launcher crisis,” forced the European Commission to turn ...

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket launched a pair of Galileo satellites just after midnight on Wednesday (Dec. 17), adding to the ...