There have never been so many satellites orbiting Earth as there are today, thanks in part to the launch of mega ...

Starlink satellites are being assaulted by ferocious solar storms, caused by the Sun pelting our atmosphere with energized ...

"Humans are exceptionally good at underestimating our ability to change the environment," said ... Orbit Satellite Population and Impacts of the SpaceX Starlink Constellation, The Astrophysical ...

Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting Earth, and most of them are destined to return. As the number of satellites ...

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they ...

Elon Musk's satellite internet company has been a game-changer for rural internet, but there could be dire consequences for Earth's stratosphere. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering ...

Scientists fear South Africa's Square Kilometre Array (SKA-Mid), the world's most powerful radio telescope together with another array co-hosted in Australia, will have their sensitive space ...

Starlink terminals ... and power lines crisscrossing communities. “The environmental impact is real… It’s making reaching our clean energy goals in Virginia nearly impossible,” he said.

However, solar-induced geomagnetic storms exacerbate this process by expanding the upper atmosphere, increasing drag and hastening re-entry. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced during the peak ...

A Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday afternoon closed May with a quintet of missions to deliver Starlink satellites into ...

were lobbying for license requirements to reduce the impact on observations in certain frequency ranges, including some that SKA-Mid uses. That could direct Starlink to steer satellite beams away ...