Researchers suggest a hidden population of lunar fragments, or 'minimoons', may be traveling near Earth, indicating more than ...

India is conducting a rare and very sophisticated "dogfight" in space between a 'chaser' and 'target' satellite orbiting ...

According to Earthsky.org, a daily resource for information about space and our planet, the former Soviet Union launched ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. It weighed 184 pounds, and it transmitted a ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

Satellite operator SES reported its numbers on April 30th but it has now emerged that the company’s O3b mPOWER Mid-Earth ...

The American satellite was tracked making two close passes to China's TJS-16 and TJS-17 satellites on April 26 and 29, with a distance of 10.5 miles and 7.4 miles, respectively. It was not immediately ...

The thousands of satellites operated by companies from Starlink to Telesat will eventually burn up in the atmosphere when ...

How can nanosatellites help advance lunar exploration and settlement? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

A Russian satellite, Cosmos 2553, is tumbling out of control and posing a danger for other orbiting craft. Satellite ...

Amazon Monday night launched its first 27 Project Kuiper internet satellites into orbit. The company aims to have more than 3 ...