Officials in Washington are taking notice, investing in greater efforts to defend U.S. satellites while countering threats from China and Russia.

It’s not that the fireballs weren’t there; it’s just that the moon happens to be in a large and reflective phase lately. Moonlight tends to brighten the whole sky, washing out otherwise visible ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to the space agency.

SpaceX still lists three Starlink deployment missions on the schedule in August from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...