NASA and ISRO's NISAR satellite aims to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's surface movements with frequent global ...

A piece of SpaceX's massive internet constellation blazed across the central US on Saturday as it re-entered Earth's ...

When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...

Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage ...

The bright object was likely a Starlink satellite burning up in Earth's atmosphere as it fell back toward our planet.

When a satellite is decommissioned in low-Earth orbit, operators will try to dispose of it by burning it up in Earth’s atmosphere. But the large metal objects don’t always entirely ...

An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth's orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 ...

The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable building material in future exploration of destinations like the Moon and Mars.

LignoStat -- the satellite is named after the Latin word for wood -- will soon be launched into orbit about 250 miles above Earth. There, it will orbit for six months, testing the potential ...

Kyoto University researchers said one benefit of using wood is that it will burn up in Earth's atmosphere when the satellite de-orbits, preventing any metals from reaching Earth. The use of future ...