Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Discover how losing thousands of satellites could instantly shut down GPS, ...

Earth-orbiting satellites could begin colliding with one another in less than three days in a worst-case-scenario scenario — potentially triggering a runaway cascade that may render low Earth orbit ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to modernize its satellite spectrum-sharing rules, which could ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...

A rendering of a satellite orbiting Earth. - 3dsculptor/Getty Images Now decades after the fabled Space Race of the 1950 and '60s, humanity's presence in space has dramatically increased. While it is ...

Satellite collisions in orbit could trigger a catastrophic global chain reaction, potentially halting space exploration, ...

There was nothing terribly remarkable about the Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 satellites—at least not at first. Iridium was a 1,500 lb. communications satellite the U.S. launched into space in 1997; ...