But more than 40 percent of the satellites in Earth’s orbit are space debris: defunct instruments and other materials that ...

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of forests across multiple continents ...

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space ...

However, this striking formation is short-lived; as the satellites ascend to their operational orbit at 340 miles (550 ... in real-time this Starlink map shows the global coverage of each Starlink ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

named Space Camera for Object Tracking, or SCOT. The 25-kg contraption (slightly larger than a shoebox) will essentially scan the skies and map debris as small as 5 cm in Low-Earth Orbit ...