Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.

BlueBird 6 features the biggest commercial communications array antenna ever deployed in orbit around Earth, spanning some ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

SpaceX has asked the FCC to approve a constellation of space-based data centers for AI training, a move that could overwhelm ...

Low-Earth orbit is more crowded—and fragile—than it looks. Satellites constantly weave past each other, burning fuel and making dozens of evasive maneuvers every year just to stay safe. A major solar ...

The CRASH Clock is a new predictor of how much time there will be before a collision if a solar storm knocks out power and ...

Bright streaks in the night sky aren't always meteors. With more and more satellites overhead, it's getting harder to tell ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

Low Earth orbit is no longer a quiet frontier. With thousands of commercial spacecraft circling just a few hundred kilometers ...

Planned launch of 500,000 satellites could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

The Black Knight Satellite and the Unanswered Questions in Earth’s Orbit ...

Thousands of satellites that disintegrate upon re-entry release aluminum into the atmosphere, disrupting polar winds and the ...