NASA’s official plan is to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of its life, and send it in a controlled death ...

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

Humanity has invested a lot in satellites, and not just in terms of money. Yes, the most expensive satellites can cost close to a billion dollars, but the bigger investment comes in terms of our ...

The company started the week by announcing it had entered a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the U.S. Government, under which it would receive $277 million in Federal Funding and a $1.3 billion senior ...

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 ...

Thousands of satellites are tightly packed into low Earth orbit, and the overcrowding is only growing. Scientists have created a simple warning system called the CRASH Clock that answers a basic ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

SEATTLE — A multi-vehicle crash closed four lanes of southbound Interstate 5 on Christmas Eve. All lanes of traffic reopened by 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night. Washington State Department of ...

SEVERAL CARS WERE INVOLVED. OUR PETER ELIOPOULOS IS LIVE IN WATERTOWN, WHERE PEOPLE ARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. PETER? YEAH, THEY SURE ARE, JENNIFER. AND THERE ARE JUST SO ...

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 ...

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