For decades, satellites watched every move from orbit. From CORONA's film capsules caught mid-air to Big Bird's ocean recoveries, this is how superpowers spied on each other from space.

Sometimes satellites must die. The US destroyed its own malfunctioning spy satellite in Operation Burnt Frost while the Cold ...

Astronomical images could be blemished by bright streaks, if plans for huge numbers of satellites go ahead — plus, the ...

Astrophotographers observing Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) captured how rapidly Earth’s near-space environment is being polluted ...

We’ve been receiving calls into the WTOP Newsroom reporting phenomena in the skies that people can’t explain — but our space expert can.

A research team led by Professor Woong-bae Zee at Sejong University has uncovered compelling evidence that the distinctive ...

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

COLORADO (KRDO) - U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper and Mike Crapo have reintroduced a bill to limit the number of satellites you can see in the sky. “There’s bipartisan agreement that we need a strong ...

Get ready stargazers, the final full moon of 2025 rises tonight! Here's what to expect when the "Cold Supermoon" looms large ...

Starlink is growing fast, and SpaceX has filed paperwork for as many as 42,000 satellites. Others such as OneWeb, Amazon, ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...