It's getting crowded up there Earth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway, with more and more satellites being ...

SES completed its long-anticipated acquisition of Intelsat this summer, 15 months after agreeing to combine and create the ...

Space junk has filled up so much of Earth's orbit that it's endangering satellites and astronauts. The company Kayhan Space issues roughly 1,000 space-collision warnings per day. Earth-orbit experts ...

Valuations of US space companies may have hit stratospheric levels, but the fortunes of local satcom companies is tracking ...

The concept of "cloud computing" has just become literal in the most extreme way possible. In a historic first that signals a ...

Google's Project Suncatcher is a proposal to launch an 81-satellite constellation into low Earth orbit. But it must contend ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai are leading a new space race to build orbital data centres, aiming to revolutionise ...

SpaceX has made trips to orbit routine. Satellites in orbit are vital to the modern world. Here's what you need to know about how we send things whizzing around the Earth. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space ...