Satellite

Astronomers go to great lengths to find the quietest, darkest corners of the night sky, but a new breed of satellites like those of SpaceX's Starlink project threaten to ruin the views in very damaging ways. And the problems don't end there.

Central to SpaceX's mission of making rocket launches as cheap as possible is recovering and recycling as many components as possible, and it today took another significant step toward this aim, flying a recovered payload fairing for the first time.

Virgin Orbit has revealed plans for the first commercial satellite mission to Mars, where a new breed of tiny probes could help study the Red Planet.

The Hero rescue beacon is about the size of a pepper grinder, and it costs nothing to use.

ESA plans to launch the first Earth observation satellite incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in a few months.

ESA has been forced to reposition its Aeolus satellite to avoid a collision with a member of SpaceX’s Starlink mega constellation.

NASA has released images and footage of Hurricane Dorian, as it continues its menacing advance across the Atlantic Ocean.

ESA has released a tool that lets space enthusiasts track probes in real time as they communicate with ground stations on Earth.

In a new distance record, researchers have sent a photon, entangled with an ion, down a 50-km (31-mi) long optical fiber.

Data collected by ESA satellites has revealed a near fourfold increase in the number of fires devastating the Amazon rain forest.

A rare authentic full-scale working test model of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik-1, is up for auction.

​​The way small satellites and scientific instruments find their way into space these days is by hitching a ride on large rockets carrying hefty payloads. But some are looking to change that, including SpaceX with a new launch program specifically for firing these small payloads into space.