China is practicing “dogfighting” satellites as part of its expanding capabilities in space, according to the United States ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch.

Greenhouse gas emissions aren’t just warming our planet, they’re reshaping space, too ... Core Observatory that went into orbit in 2014. Weather satellites are critical for weather forecasting.

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

The first satellite ... flying its full complement, it’ll provide firefighters with near real-time updates on a fire’s whereabouts and behavior. The constellation is a joint effort between ...

Blasting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s EZIE mission is on a groundbreaking journey to unravel the mysteries of auroral ...

And it's not just the launches. SpaceX is operating a constellation of more than 7,000 satellites, flying humans into space regularly, and developing an unprecedented rocket like Starship.

NASA’s upcoming EZIE mission will use three small satellites to study electrojets — powerful electrical currents in the upper atmosphere linked to auroras. These mysterious currents influence ...

The rocket's chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a 100 colors that are invisible to the human eye. Accompanying the telescope is a suite ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...