The "Starlink satellite train" has become a captivating sight for skywatchers, offering a glimpse of the future of global internet coverage. This dazzling spectacle occurs shortly after SpaceX ...

WASHINGTON – A prototype satellite known as BlueWalker 3 has riled the scientific community which declared this week that it, a man-made piece of communications equipment, is now one of the brightest ...

A shocking image shows how the night sky is being crowded by satellites. Astrophotographers observing Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) have captured striking evidence of how rapidly Earth’s near-space ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An unusual sight in the night sky is again raising questions. If you spotted a bright string of lights moving across the sky, you were likely watching a Starlink satellite train moving ...

While Starlink has won accolades for expanding internet connectivity across the globe, including access even in remote locations, such as out at sea, the internet satellite constellation has caused a ...

If you happen to look into the night sky in the near future and see flashing lights or what appears to be extraterrestrial activity, don’t be alarmed, it’s just a tiny satellite that was launched by ...

There are more than 12,000 active satellites circling Earth at the moment, a growing figure that has nearly doubled in less than three years. This recent boom in the satellite industry has been a ...

A Harvard astrophysicist identified mysterious objects that streaked across several states — including Arkansas — on Saturday night as a commercial imaging satellite from China that re-entered and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Luke Matheson A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over some southern states in the ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

A startling analysis from Globe at Night — a citizen science program run by NSF’s NOIRLab — concludes that stars are disappearing from human sight at an astonishing rate. The study finds that, to ...