Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...

ESA’s Biomass satellite reveals hidden carbon, forests, and terrain using advanced radar that sees through trees, sand, and ...

The final image captured by the recently decommissioned Landsat 7 satellite shows how "Sin City" has nearly doubled in size ...

The number of satellites in Earth's orbit has skyrocketed from about 1,000 in 2010 to more than 10,000 today. According to a government report, ...

What is the Kessler Syndrome? How space junk has become an orbital threat Defunct satellites and other detritus often remain in orbit above Earth, creating a growing space junkyard that poses a ...

With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number of companies working to put more than 1,000 satellites each into space to create their own mega constellation.