A rendering of a satellite orbiting Earth. - 3dsculptor/Getty Images Now decades after the fabled Space Race of the 1950 and '60s, humanity's presence in space has dramatically increased. While it is ...

It's hard to know for sure, given how some of these things are secret, but the current count puts the number of satellites in orbit at over 10,000. Only one of them is, at least so far, made of wood: ...

As anyone who’s looked at the sky just before dawn or right after dusk can confirm, for the last seventy years or so there have been all kinds of artificial satellites floating around in low-Earth ...

Now decades after the fabled Space Race of the 1950 and '60s, humanity's presence in space has dramatically increased. While it is remarkable that humans have so much floating around in Earth's orbit, ...