Using an engineering feat never before accomplished scientists have created artificial solar eclipses, so that they can view ...

Two Chinese satellites reportedly performed what appears to be the country's first high-altitude orbital refueling, as U.S.

A pair of satellites astronomers hope can create an artificial eclipse were launched from a site in India last week. Beginning in 2025, each satellite will cause a periodic eclipse that lasts for ...

All the other red artificial satellites are located far from the Earth, but you can see that the green Starlink is flying close to the Earth, covering the surface of the Earth.

When the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was put into orbit around Earth, anyone in the path of the satellite could receive the beeps transmitted by the satellite provided they had some ...

Currently, there are 12,712 objects in orbit around the planet, but what happens when one crashes through Earth's atmosphere? Here's what the ESA has to say.

On October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. The Soviet Union packed its celestial dreams of space exploration into a sphere and launched it into the sky ...

More satellites shooting around the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour will mean a greater chance of potentially calamitous collisions.

The satellites will launch to an extremely elliptical orbit around Earth, flying at a distance of 492 feet (150 meters) from one another.

Finding these hidden strips across millions of acres of dense jungle was nearly impossible. Then artificial intelligence—combined with satellite images—lent a hand.

Space | NPR A pair of satellites will create artificial solar eclipses to study the sun Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer ...