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 ...

SpaceX has launched thousands of satellites into orbit to provide high-speed internet access over the past few years. Companies like OneWeb and Amazon are doing the same. Research is now being done to ...

Elon Musk's brilliant plan for saving us from climate change involves a little help from a swarm of friendly AI satellites.

The growing congestion of Earth orbit has raised risks to satellites, space stations, and long-term space sustainability. The U.S. Space Force (USSF) has responded by forming partnerships, funding ...

An Atlas V rocket sends Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites into space. (United Launch Alliance via YouTube) A second batch of satellites has been sent into low Earth orbit for Amazon’s Project Kuiper ...

One of the most important satellite launches of all time was that of Sputnik. When the Soviet satellite became the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth on October 4, 1957, space must have seemed ...

Sept. 21 (UPI) --SpaceX launched 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit via a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The first stage booster from the launch ...

Amazon launched its first batch of satellites into orbit on Monday in the company’s first step toward rivaling Elon Musk's Starlink satellite constellation. Amazon's Project Kuiper sent 27 satellites ...

Starfish Space plans to make history on its second-ever mission, which is set to lift off next month. On Tuesday (May 20), the Seattle-based startup unveiled the outline of the groundbreaking flight, ...

Project Kuiper is a subsidiary of Amazon, the online commerce behemoth that billionaire Jeff Bezos founded in 1994. The venture is meant to challenge Starlink, an internet satellite constellation ...