The closer to Earth a satellite flies, the clearer a picture it can take of the surface. But low-flying satellites also have ...

Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.

It's getting crowded up there Earth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway, with more and more satellites being ...

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P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama.

The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier never before explored by astronauts. Reading time 3 minutes Launching rockets ...

"Everything we have ever designed to go into space has been one mission, one life. It's sort of crazy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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

On Dec. 26, 1974, Salyut 4, a Soviet space station, launched into orbit around Earth. Salyut 4 was a small space station ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit. Any thoughts that Earth is now going to be ...