The average distance between the Moon and Earth is 382,500 kilometers (about 237674.48 miles). As such, there's plenty of space around our planet to warrant all the satellites we put into orbit, right ...

A new report in Nature discusses how the dramatic increase in satellite launches will affect astronomy. Before 2019, the largest group of associated satellites was the Iridium satellite constellation, ...

Before humans first started sending objects into Earth orbit, the pocket of space around our planet was clear and clean. But the launch of Sputnik 1 in October of 1957 changed everything. Since then, ...