Satellites

The 6mm hole was discovered accidentally in footage from an onboard camera.

Over 100 astronomers from leading U.S. universities have signed an open letter calling for an assessment of potential impacts of satellite megaconstellations on Earth's environment.

Debris from the broken-apart Intelsat 33e telecom satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation shows.

China has revealed the payloads it sent to Earth orbit last month on the two-week-long Shijian-19 retrievable satellite mission.

More than 100 partners have signed Europe's Zero Debris Charter, a push to help get Earth's space junk problem under control.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites now make up 40% of reentering satellite debris. But is Elon Musk's space company the worst polluter of Earth's upper atmosphere?

In the wake of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, SpaceX has distributed more than 10,000 Starlink kits and waived monthly fees for using the satellite internet service in affected areas.

Whether discovering exoplanets or measuring the size of an asteroid, cubesats are affordable throughout the space community, even to small startup, private companies and university laboratories.

The growing number of rocket launches and satellites burning up in Earth's atmosphere could trigger the world's next big environmental emergency.

Air pollution from re-entering satellites is a potential environmental disaster that evades Earth-based laws, experts say.