The extra cost was to set up and staff a mission control that will now never be used to drive the satellite which has been lost in space.

In 2025, Earth's orbit is increasingly crowded with nearly 12,952 satellites, with the U.S. leading with 8,530, largely due ...

MethaneSAT lost contact in June and is believed to be unrecoverable.

New satellite maps reveal how oceans absorb carbon, offering real-time insight into climate shifts and ocean acidification.

Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of ...

Tracking images show Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 within extremely close range, suggesting docking then refuelling and servicing ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

THREAD: New high-res satellite images captured today by Maxar Technologies show bulldozers and excavators at work near two air strike sites at Iran's Fordo enrichment facilitiy after the complex was ...

Rocket Lab achieved a new milestone on June 28, 2025, with the successful launch of a confidential satellite aboard its Electron rocket.

Clouds are the bane of a hurricane forecaster’s existence. Or they were, until about 20 years ago, when forecasters got ...

Further, the capability of the FireSat to track gas flares, urban hot spots, and natural heat sources makes FireSat useful ...