In the intense early days of the space race, a small, unusual satellite was launched into space sixty-seven years ago.

There's something else that now appears on Google Earth. Zoom in over rural North Texas, and you'll find a satellite. It ...

A US satellite startup will launch the first communications satellite dedicated to Taiwan, strengthening the self-ruled ...

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

Starlink satellites aren’t just photobombing astronomy photos — they might be sneaking into Google Maps too. A Reddit user viewing an area of Texas using the satellite image layer on Google ...

An awkward-looking, spherical satellite the size of a grapefruit launched in March 1958, and was boosted into a high elliptical orbit. The satellite, named Vanguard-1, was a test of launch ...

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world's oceans. There are better maps ...

Maps and satellite imagery reveal the exponential growth of Musk's empire.

A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ... a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations ...

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The world’s longest quantum communications link ... but it’s encrypted through quantum key distribution (QKD). The satellite encodes encryption keys into individual photons, then beams them ...