SpaceX plans to lower the orbits of some of its Starlink satellites, a move the company says is intended to improve space ...

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Astronomers have used the Keck Observatory's DEIMOS multi-object spectrograph to observe a nearby galaxy cluster designated ...

Michael Nicolls, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink engineering, said on Thursday that all SpaceX satellites operating at around 550 kilometers (342 miles) will be reconfigured to ...

SpaceX confirmed that one Starlink satellite recently exploded in orbit, and it is now tumbling to re-enter the planet.

A SpaceX executive said the move would reduce the "likelihood of collision" with other satellites and space debris.

According to SpaceX, the satellite will reenter Earth's atmosphere within weeks, and the event poses no danger to the crew of the International Space Station.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink recently confirmed that one of its satellites lost communication after an anomaly in orbit on December 17. In a post shared on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed an elliptical galaxy known as ...

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As if to underscore the need to avoid the Kessler Syndrome, a scenario in which cascading debris can make some orbits difficult to use, a Starlink satellite vented propellant and released debris ...