There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

You may have seen a string of lights in the night sky overnight, but what are these lights and why are they in a straight ...

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18). An Electron vehicle carrying the first "Gen-3" satellite for the geospatial intelligence ...

Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study ...

Engineers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are working on a satellite-based system for data links. The venture forms ...

China has managed to deliver a pair of satellites into lunar orbit despite the spacecraft initially being stranded in low ...

The first episode of ITU’s Space Connect examined the fundamentals of LEO satellite constellations, revealing key trends and ...

If you want to send something into orbit, you have to decide how high your satellite is going to fly. Earth orbits are generally described in terms of altitude and are categorised into different ...