A physicist says a SpaceX rocket may have punched a temporary hole in the ionosphere. The ionosphere is where Earth's atmosphere meets space. Jeff Baumgardner, a physicist from Boston University ...

Starlink and other mega constellations rely on an economy of scale; their massive fleet is continually refreshed with new satellites to replace old ones that burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

SpaceX rockets are ripping brightly colored holes in the Earth's ionosphere. These phenomena have been studied for over 40 years. These are harmless, but may interrupt scientists trying to view the ...

SpaceX's Starlink makes up the majority of objects in low Earth orbit, with about 6,000 satellites currently circling the planet. The company has permission to launch 12,000 more and hopes to have ...

The growing number of satellites burning up in Earth's atmosphere has concerned scientists for years, and now a new paper explores how the emerging shell of "conductive dust" around the planet ...

Astronomers Just Found the Closest Black Hole to Earth. Until Now, It Was Invisible This black hole is ten times as massive as the sun and is 1,600 light years away—three times closer than the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered the nearest known black hole to Earth, and it’s twice as ...

The Burning Earth: A History Sunil Amrith W. W. Norton (2024) In the 1620s, King Charles I of England commissioned a Dutch water engineer, Cornelius Vermuyden, to drain the flat fenlands of East ...