China has successfully launched a Gravity-1 rocket carrying nine satellites into orbit from waters near Shanghai, according ...

Proposed orbital data centers and space mirrors could create bright, concentrated satellite bands that cross the sky at dawn and dusk, making Earth appear ringed. Astronomers warn that these ...

China on Wednesday successfully launched its Gravity-1 commercial rocket from the East China Sea, placing nine satellites ...

HELSINKI — A classified satellite launched by China in June is operating in a creative orbit, giving it a unique vantage point over the geostationary belt. Shijian-31 launched on a Long March 3B June ...

A Gravity-1 carrier rocket carrying nine satellites blasts off from waters off the coast of Shanghai, east China, July 22, ...

Hundreds of satellites may soon be flying in orbital regions that are already too packed to allow safe and long-term operations, a new study suggests. The study found that, while in 2019 only 0.2% of ...

New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other ...

SpaceX is working to make its satellites less of a nuisance to astronomers by testing out ways to stop Starlink from showing up in images of the cosmos. The company recently lowered the altitude of a ...

SpaceX has announced that it's lowering the orbits of some 4,400 Starlink satellites following a near miss with a new Chinese satellite last year. SpaceX says the shift, which will take place ...

WASHINGTON — Developers of wildfire-detection satellites are moving beyond raw data delivery, adding tools that show firefighters and researchers when satellites will actually pass over the areas they ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and time around with it in a perpetual swirl. This phenomenon is known as frame ...