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The number of satellites orbiting the Earth is increasing exponentially. (Image credit: Shutterstock)    Live Science: How many satellites ...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launches the classified NROL-38 spy satellite into orbit from Space Launch Complex-41 at the Cape Ca...

An M7.9 class flare. A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots. Fla...

Image: The payload for Hylas was developed through Esa's Artes telecoms research programme From The BBC: The date was September 1999 an...

As more and more spacecraft are put into orbit, the chance of a collision increases. Click to enlarge this image. ESA From Discovery News: S...

The new spacecraft will use payload items held in reserve From The BBC: Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to be extend...

Don't You Wish You Knew What's Beyond that Ridge? With Kestrel Eye satellites, grunts on the ground will be able to check out surrou...

From Popular Mechanics: American spy satellites have captured an exhaustive array of images of the Earth. After all, they have been taking p...

Space-Based Surveillance Satellite courtesy Ball Aerospace & Technologies From Popsci.com: PopSci visits the Colorado facility of the ...

NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office has counted about 17,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters, and it estimates that there are more than ...

Image from Scientific American 2 Big Satellites Collide 500 Miles Over Siberia -- Yahoo News/AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Two big communication...

Views such as this one are made possible by satellites orbiting the planet, a feat they have been performing for the past half-century. Alth...

Chips are down: AGPS satellite like this one is used to pinpoint where potential hostages are From Yahoo News/Reuters: QUERETARO, Mexico (R...