Google’s orbital AI data center faces collision risks from space debris in increasingly crowded low Earth orbit.

A rare SWOT satellite pass captured a Pacific-wide tsunami in high resolution, revealing complex wave patterns that challenge ...

Google’s ambitious Project Suncatcher proposes launching a constellation of 81 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) to ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.

Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the ...

Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing ...

NASA is also tracking a building-sized asteroid named “2025 YC3”, with a diameter of around 260 feet, and another bus-sized one known as “2025 XT7,” some 42 feet across. Both are expected to come with ...

A Chinese satellite just outperformed Starlink—using a laser no stronger than a nightlight. Fired from 36,000 km above Earth, ...

Data centers in space could reshape power use. Google’s Project Suncatcher targets a 2027 orbit test of TPUs, lasers and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out ...

Bangladesh has moved a step closer to entering the global space economy, commissioning a feasibility study on whether the country can build its own rockets, satellites, and even a dedicated space ...

Imagine looking down at Earth from space, but in real-time! A live satellite map uses pictures taken from satellites that are orbiting our planet right now. It shows you what’s happening on the ground ...