Researchers from the U.K. plan to launch a CubeSat covered with a newly formulated "hull-darkening" Vantablack paint into space next year. If successful, the coating could help mitigate light ...

Satellite streaks block out the Arctic sky | Space photo of the day for June 20, 2025 The Salsa Cluster satellite's reentry on Sept. 8, 2024. The spacecraft is visible as a tiny whitish dot ...

Japan has long been at the forefront of space exploration, from becoming the fourth nation to launch a satellite in 1970 to executing groundbreaking missions like the Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return.

The satellite industry boom could exacerbate the effects scientists have observed. In the next five years, the number of satellites in orbit is projected to grow from roughly 12,000 today to ...

WASHINGTON — The heads of leading U.S. satellite imaging firms are urging Congress to reject proposed budget cuts to commercial remote sensing programs, warning the reductions could undermine ...

Despite expectations for an on-time satellite delivery, the Space Force has opted to delay the launch of its first Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared spacecraft until at least next ...

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine ...

Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia during the launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite on April 25, 2018. It was also the launch site of the Cosmos 2553 satellite, Stephane Corvaja/Getty ...

The world's oldest trees 04:51. Researchers have successfully launched a new satellite that is designed to study the planet's forests and "provide unprecedented insight" into how those regions ...

After more than ten years of development, the European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a satellite that will map the carbon content of the world’s rainforests.

Rural Internet Is Still So Bad, Some States Are Turning to Outer Space More states are subsidizing satellite connectivity, which could be a boon to Elon Musk’s Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper ...

Heads up! It’s not just asteroids that are threatening to rock our world. A defunct Soviet satellite is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we ...