These amazing maps illustrate the cloud of man-made objects encircling our blue marble. Humans have managed to put a whole bunch of stuff in orbit around the Earth, and keeping track of it all is ...

The payload Russia's military chose to launch on the Angara A5 is unusual. The rocket deployed its primary passenger, Kosmos ...

Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, systems like GPS, and other scientific instruments. A small portion, about ...

Watch 20,000 Satellites Orbit Earth in Real Time — Simply Amazing! Stuff in Space is a real-time 3D map of man-made objects in Earth orbit brought to life by James Yoder.

In October of 1957, the USSR launched the world's first artificial satellite into orbit around Earth. Today, we're combining ...

Orbit Logic of Greenbelt, Md., has created SpyMeSat, an app that provides notifications when spy satellites and unclassified imaging satellites are zooming above your head and may be taking your ...

Experts believe the nascent satellite market will be shaped by a variety of forces as it develops and expands.

The scientists originally assumed that the signal came from a distant object in the cosmos, but further analysis revealed that the long-dead Relay-2 was in fact the culprit behind the mysterious pulse ...