SpaceX has lost contact with one of its broadband satellites, which is now falling toward Earth due to an unspecified and seemingly mysterious anomaly. The company revealed that a Starlink satellite ...

A collision would occur in just 2.8 days if all satellites lost their ability to dodge each other, highlighting how crowded Earth’s orbit is becoming. In the past seven years, the number of satellites ...

Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the goal of "building an American power grid in space." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as ...

Starlink,a division of SpaceX, provides satellite internet around the world. It is ideal for those who live in rural areas as connection speeds are often improved over what local companies offer. It's ...

Orbit Financial Technology is rolling out a new monthly membership system for its research and analysis platform, Orbit Insight, to provide smaller firms and investors with access to hedge-fund level ...

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...

General Motors has just unveiled the brand-new Buick Electra Orbit Concept globally, a new design exploration that fuses Buick heritage with futuristic EV technology. The automaker unveiled the Buick ...

When we first started Spaceium, the idea of in-orbit refueling felt like something no one was really thinking about. Two years ago, when we spoke to other space companies, it wasn’t on the radar. We ...

Nearly a week after launch, space tracking systems were able to locate a mysterious satellite parked in an unusually low orbit. China launched the experimental satellite to test new technologies, but ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus more than 50 years ago plunged to Earth on Saturday. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed the spacecraft – known as ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report ...