Sceye (pronounced “sky”), the helium-filled aircraft is designed to gather information on methane leaks that satellites miss.

The world at large is working to stop the fast-progressing degradation of Earth's environment. In the space sector, however, ...

Rocket Lab also flies a suborbital variant of Electron known as HASTE, which serves as a testbed for hypersonic technologies.

An unexpected moment captured from orbit has offered a rare glimpse into the growing complexity of Earth’s low orbit environment. A satellite image, discovered on Google Earth, appears to show a ...

Space race is on A quiet space race is unfolding above us as tech giants and governments rush to wrap the Earth in a digital blanket of satellites, promising global internet access and real-time ...

In some ways, the stars above us are the ultimate equalizer ... spawning tens of thousands of satellites in orbit around the Earth, it only stands to make the visible night sky less so.

The satellite boom, though, is taking soot higher still. About 80% of the black carbon generated by rocket launches is deposited 15 kilometers or higher above the Earth’s surface. At the top of ...

For years, the commercial space sector has been abuzz about the prospect of satellite "super constellations" in Earth orbit.

However, if a satellite is in geosynchronous orbit, it's substantially further from Earth, about 22,000 miles above the surface. Satellites launched into this kind of orbit may have additional ...

GOES-19 satellite replaces GOES-16 to cover the GOES East orbit 22,236 miles above Earth's equator. It also completes NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or R-series ...