As Russia threatens nuclear attacks on Ukraine and NATO, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, European space powers are ...

France and Europe must be prepared to defend their interests in the orbit too, the French leader is expected to say on ...

As the U.S., China and others compete in space, the need for fast and frequent communication links with satellites orbiting ...

The U.S. Space Force is hoping to get its own permanent opposition force for training, this time in orbit. Specifically, the service is looking at sending up satellites into space to serve as ...

One of the most important satellite launches of all time was that of Sputnik. When the Soviet satellite became the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth on October 4, 1957, space must have seemed ...

Elon Musk’s Starlink network was built to blanket the planet with low-cost internet, but a growing number of its satellites are now falling back to Earth every single day. As I look at the data and ...

A researcher uncovered evidence that 171 SpaceX Starlink satellites used by the US government were broadcasting in the "wrong ...

SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites Is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar storm. 49 small satellites were launched February 3 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX now reports ...

For decades, the military has relied on large, multi-ton satellites for global communications from geostationary orbit (GEO), a prime location 35,000 kilometers above Earth that provides unique ...

Space is no longer the domain of a few government agencies. It has evolved into a vital ecosystem of commercial ventures and scientific innovation that affects global communications, navigation, ...

About 170 Starshield satellites built by SpaceX for the US government’s National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have been ...

A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about what is space junk or space treasure. Orbital space is full of retro ...