Around 13,700 satellites orbit Earth, and with over 9,000, the U.S. owns the most. It's way ahead of any other nation, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The number of spacecraft orbiting Earth is rising fast thanks to the emergence of private ...

A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about ...

SpaceX just sent two dozen more of its Starlink internet satellites to space. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 24 Starlink craft ...

Amazon made same-day delivery the benchmark on Earth. Impulse Space is pitching a similar concept for satellites bound for ...

In addition to NAOS, which was built for Luxembourg by the company OHB Italia, the Falcon 9 is carrying small satellites for Dhruva Space (LEAP-1); the San Francisco-based company Planet (Pelican-3 ...

SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 18), sending them aloft from Florida's Space Coast.A ...

Taiwan's space chief Wu Jong-shinn says the "clock is ticking" for the democratic island to launch its own satellites to ...

A giant slingshot might sound like something out of a science fair or a medieval battle—but one California startup is turning this idea into a revolutionary way to launch satellites. This system doesn ...

Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual ...

The Pentagon recently completed a major milestone with the Pentagon satellite launch of 21 advanced satellites from ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...