The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

The Space Force's top-secret aircraft has been in a highly elliptical high Earth orbit since December 2023. That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) has silently slipped past one-year ...

How is the International Space Station able to orbit without burning up? – Mateo, age 8, New York, New York Flying through ...

So much junk is filling Earth's orbit that collision avoidance has become a busy business. "We're talking about the dead satellites, the rocket bodies, the fairings, the wrenches, the gloves ...

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida on Monday afternoon.

There is more space junk in Earth's orbit now than ever before. And this growing problem is creating an increasingly hazardous environment for operational spacecraft and satellites. Space junk ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it ...

Rocket Lab launched a private Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit today (Dec. 21) on the company's final mission of a busy 2024. An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand ...