Geosynchronous orbits are vital for communications and Earth-monitoring satellites. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

SpaceX is preparing a sweeping reshuffle of its Starlink broadband network, planning to lower the orbits of about 4,400 ...

Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president of Starlink engineering, announced that satellites currently orbiting at around 550 ...

SpaceX has made trips to orbit routine. Satellites in orbit are vital to the modern world. Here's what you need to know about how we send things whizzing around the Earth. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

Starlink, SpaceX's satellite network, plans to lower its satellite orbits from 550 km to 480 km by 2026 to enhance space ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

The planets of our solar system all orbit the Sun within a few degrees of a flat plane extending out from our star’s equator — its equatorial plane. That makes sense. Our solar system began as a ...

NASA’s Terra satellite, launched in 1999, is approaching retirement after over 26 years, continuing to provide long-term Earth observations of land, atmosphere, and oceans.

Okapi:Orbits publicly released its first automated collision avoidance service. Since it was founded in 2018, Okapi has been developing software that harnesses artificial intelligence to help ...

MIAMI? The ability of life to thrive on alien worlds may be impacted by the wild andweird orbits of giant neighboring planets, new studies suggest. Theheftier worlds in other planetary systems could ...