Space used to be a mostly quiet backdrop for rockets and research. Now it is crowded with thousands of internet satellites ...

When you gaze up at the night sky these days, what appears as a string of slow-moving lights could be Starlink satellites.

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Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or relay data, are increasingly contaminating the frequencies astronomers use ...

On Monday morning, SpaceX launched one of its reusable rockets from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying 60 satellites into space at once. It was the second payload of Starlink, its planned constellation ...

On Wednesday (Dec. 17), this particular Starlink suffered an anomaly that caused a loss of communication with the ground and an unscheduled venting of its propulsion tank. The satellite is now ...

Customer numbers for SpaceX's Starlink internet have surged by 1 million in the past six weeks, the company said on X.