Did you know that satellites are constantly falling? To understand how satellites stay in orbit, imagine standing on a very tall mountain and throwing a ball straight out in front of you. Gravity ...

The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado—One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for ...

The Vandenberg Tracking Station is a remote tracking station, located near Santa Maria, Calif., operating within the Space Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). This collection of remote tracking ...

In 2025, China set a national record for orbital launches in a single year with over 90 launches. Chinese investment in its commercial space sector, including from private and government sources, ...

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Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect that the Iranian government has confirmed that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the airstrikes on Iran and to clarify Donald ...

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Jean-François Morizur, the CEO and founder of Cailabs, a French company focused on ground-to-satellite laser optical communications. As satellites play a ...

K2's Gravitas is an ambitious project that aims to demonstrate the tech needed to build data centers in space.

Calvin University's new CubeSat program gives aerospace engineering students the extraordinary opportunity to design, test ...

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is set to reenter Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday evening after more than a decade in orbit, according to projections from the agency and U.S. Space Force. The spacecraft, Van ...