Ten years ago there were about 1,500 satellites. Today about 15,000 satellites cross the night sky and one company is ...

Users of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service could soon receive a huge upgrade in performance, thanks to a recently ...

A proposed launch of one million satellites could overwhelm the night sky with artificial objects.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Light trails from satellites in low-Earth orbit fill the sky in this composite long-exposure photograph, which was captured over a ...

California company plans to place 4,000 "sky mirrors" in Earth orbit that will brighten skies over cities, alarming ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during April 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 140 million debris pieces already race through Earth’s orbit, and adding a million more active satellites transforms space ...

As space junk accumulates, astronomer Sam Lawler explains why we should be concerned about the rapid proliferation of private ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told reporters in a pre-launch briefing last week that nearly 12,000 satellites could be a part of the system. "In a year and a half, maybe two years, if things go well, SpaceX ...

A guide to strange lights and flashes in the sky ...

I remember the first time I saw a satellite. I was a teenager, standing in my mildly light-polluted suburban yard and doing my usual stargazing. The satellite was a faint “star” moving slowly and ...