The spacecraft are the online giant’s entry into beaming wireless service from space, but the company has much to do before it can compete with SpaceX’s Starlink.

A Russian company has deployed what it calls the "first space media satellite" into orbit as part of a plot to sell the night ...

Every three nights, it will produce a map of the entire southern sky filled with stars, galaxies, asteroids and supernovae — and swarms of bright satellites ruining some of the view. Astronomers ...

A RUSSIAN company has revealed a plot to turn the sky into the world’s biggest advertisement space. Avant Space, which says ...

Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband communications mega-constellation, a future competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink service, is ...

in early 2020. How do Starlink satellites work? The current version of each Starlink satellite weighs 573 lbs. (260 kilograms) and is, according to Sky & Telescope magazine, roughly the size of a ...

Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going ...

On clear nights, you may spot these satellites as they streak across the sky, resembling a string of bright, evenly spaced lights. While these satellites concern astronomers due to their impact on ...

Satellites are increasingly a global-communications ... is about to begin photographing the entire sky every three nights from its mountaintop location in Cerro Pachón, Chile.

Sixty-five years ago today, the first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. TIROS-1 was an attempt to see if we Earthlings could learn anything useful ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

The researchers applied a forecasting model to account for the growing number of satellites in the sky and found that the amount of aluminum could grow to 360 metric tons -- or 640% above natural ...