From Sputnik's lonely orbit to today's crowded skies, satellites shape our world in many ways. But how many are up there, and ...

Musk's initial plan was to create a "constellation" of 12,000 satellites, each the size of a kitchen table, in three orbital shells at altitudes of 217 miles, 342 miles and 715 miles (350 km, 550 km ...

Two years ago, communities across Northwest Alaska woke to find that they had no internet or cellphone service. A mammoth piece of arctic sea ice had scraped the ocean floor 34 miles north of Oliktok ...

The Sun is the angriest it's been in a while – and it's taking out that rage on the thousands of tiny satellites that make up SpaceX's Starlink fleet. A new analysis of Starlink satellites falling ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink satellites failed to fire properly ...

Unanticipated deorbit: Nearly two dozen Starlink satellites failed to reach their intended orbit during a recent launch mishap, resulting in an early demise as they fell back to Earth. SpaceX and the ...

MOLINE, Illinois — "Any idea what this is? It was a row of lights moving in the sky tonight." This and similar messages have been pouring into newsrooms for months. "Not sure what all those lights are ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — You may have noticed a string of odd lights at night recently. In the last few months WTOL 11 viewers have reported seeing the lights, which appear as dots in a straight or sometimes ...

Astronomers warn that BlueWalker 3, a test spacecraft with a large array of antennas, could be the first of many larger satellites in low-Earth orbit that interfere with astronomical observations. By ...

From intelligence gathering to internet usage to navigation, satellites are used daily across the globe. However, their activity is causing serious issues. In February, a team of researchers from ...

Twenty Starlink satellites were prematurely released during a failed SpaceX rocket launch last week — and now, observations have confirmed they all burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back ...