Cell phone videos shared by gobsmacked earthlings show what appeared to be a massive shooting star that broke into a cluster ...

McDowell continued, "the satellite has been space junk and dead as a doornail since January 2023. This was an uncontrolled ...

What’s believed to be a decommissioned satellite re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere was seen burning up the sky Saturday ...

The lakes by Delta Junction in Alaska weren’t frozen over yet when it was just dark enough to see the magical halation over the night ... satellite rides along a launch vehicle into low Earth ...

Astronomers have long been captivated by sparkling celestial objects in the night sky ... highlights the growing problem of satellite congestion in Earth orbit. As per Gizmodo, the number of ...

Many of the fluctuations in the length of Earth's day have known causes. But on scales of decades to millennia, scientists ...

A view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellte. Credit: Simon Proud / NCEO and EUMETSAT | mash mix by Space.com Trump calls for immediate ceasefire in ...

POES satellites orbit the earth 14 times each day at an altitude of approximately 520 miles (870 km). As each orbit is made the satellite can view a 1,600 mile (2,700 km) wide area of the earth.

The satellite will use radar technology to see through cloud and will even work at night. The Ukraine conflict has shown the value of such systems, which have been used to monitor Russian positions.

"I felt as if life as an astronomer and a lover of the night sky would never ... Many astronomers view the budding business of internet-satellite constellations as an existential threat.