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

More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes. SpaceX ...

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

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

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California Tuesday night, carrying 25 ...

With 15,000 satellites crowding the sky and hundreds of thousands more planned, we may soon have a cataclysmic mess overhead.

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 ...

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 ...