Low-Earth orbit is more crowded—and fragile—than it looks. Satellites constantly weave past each other, burning fuel and ...

New study warns rising orbital congestion increases Satellite Collision risk as Earth’s crowded low orbit grows more fragile ...

With satellites and space junk increasingly cluttering our planet’s low Earth orbit, a team of scientists warn that this ...

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

A new analysis suggests modern satellite networks could suffer catastrophic collisions within days of losing control during a major solar storm. The phrase “House of Cards” is often associated today ...

Scientists are beginning to read Earth in a different way, not from orbit, but from the surface of the moon. A recent study, ...

A rare disruption like a major solar storm could overwhelm Earth's satellite system and trigger a debris-producing disaster ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth's orbital overcrowding is approaching a breaking point, according to a new analysis using a warning metric called the Crash ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after retirement, raising new concerns about debris in high Earth orbit.

Another day, another ambitious company emerges to harness the power of the Sun from Earth's orbit. Okay, it's not quite that common an occurrence, but there are indeed a number of firms giving this a ...

HEO, the Australian company that performs in-space imaging of spacecraft, has acquired its own satellite though a deal with Satellogic.