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SpaceX Satellite Launch at Kennedy Space Center, Florida Geopics/Alamy As 2026 approaches, one of the year’s most significant space stories is already emerging: the rise of…
Innovative Control Method for Satellites in Space Mike_shots/Shutterstock Utilizing magnetic fields to maneuver satellites could significantly enhance the longevity of space exploration missions and reduce the…
Increasing Traffic in Earth’s Orbit Maciej Florow/Getty Images China has proposed launching nearly 200,000 satellites into Earth orbit, potentially aiming to secure orbital space rather than…
Uranus’ New Moon S/2025 U1 Discovered by James Webb Space Telescope Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/M. El Moutamid (SwRI)/M. Hedman (University of Idaho) This year, astronomers have discovered over…
Starlink satellite paths observed from space Don Pettit/NASA The proliferation of satellites in orbit is accelerating rapidly, yet their vulnerability to solar storms remains poorly understood.…
Illustration of NASA’s Relay 1 satellite, in front of Relay 2 NASA A long-dormant satellite unexpectedly emitted a powerful radio pulse, momentarily surpassing all other celestial…
A new batch of Starlink satellites deployed via Falcon 9 Rocket SpaceX Astronomers have raised concerns that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites emit radio waves that may jeopardize…
The competition in space between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is poised to expand into satellite internet. Originally launched as an online bookstore three decades…
The United Launch Alliance plans to send 27 Kuiper satellites into low Earth orbit as Amazon begins full-scale deployment of its satellite internet networkAmazon Kuiper, Amazon’s…
The billionaire battle in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has entered a new arena, the satellite internet. Started as an online bookstore 30 years…
AST SpaceMobile satellite illustration AST Space Mobile Five more are due to join the unusually reflective prototype satellites later this week, which shine brighter than nearly…
Picture this: a hacker sitting at their laptop, frantically typing code as it flashes across the screen. Suddenly, they successfully hack into a satellite. Sounds like…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes some crazy ideas for how to tinker with the universe and tests their effects against the laws…
In 1957, the first man-made object was successfully launched into space and into orbit around the Earth. This was Sputnik 1, a beautifully simple Soviet spherical…