The Sun's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...

The five IoT nanosatellites were deployed into a 400-mile-high (643 kilometers) orbit about 66 minutes after liftoff as ...

SpaceX deployed 23 Starlink satellites, bolstering its global internet network with enhanced mobile connectivity via ...

SpaceX is planning an early Tuesday morning launch of two dozen Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast.

The BlueWalker 3 satellite was fully deployed, making it the "largest-ever commercial communications array in low Earth orbit ...

While SpaceX has revolutionized space launches, vastly decreasing their cost and increasing their reliability, the company ...

At 11:07 a.m., a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

"Earth can regularly capture asteroids from the Near-Earth object (NEO) population and pull them into orbit, making them mini-moons," the team explained a paper in September. "Sometimes, these ...

Qianfan is one of two Chinese megaconstellations aimed at challenging Starlink’s dominance. The other, Guowang, also known as ...

SpaceX's Starlink 12-1 liftoff carried 23 internet satellites — including a dozen with the direct-to-cell capabilities — up ...