"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...

The launch was designed to place NVS-02 into a geostationary transfer orbit with a perigee of 170 kilometers and apogee ... However, the low perigee of NVS-02 would put the spacecraft in danger ...

Elon Musk’s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX on Tuesday launched its Falcon 9 rocket with 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from California and subsequently landed a Falcon 9 rocket ...

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, right on the edge of Earth's atmosphere. High in the skies of Earth ...

On this date, Jan. 23, 1998, shuttle Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station. On that mission, Andy Thomas ...

The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 22 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. It will deploy them there about 61 minutes after liftoff. SpaceX has now launched 14 Falcon ...

Researchers have discovered an Earth-like planet with such an eccentric orbit that it swoops in and out of its habitable zone throughout its year. Though the super-Earth could theoretically be ...

In other words, it takes one year to complete its elliptical—or nearly circular—orbit around the Sun, covering approximately 940 million kilometers. This means the Earth and all of us ...

The 21 satellites will be heading to low-Earth orbit, where there are more than 6,000 already there. SpaceX owns the Starlink company. Once deployed and in their orbit, they will provide internet ...

A Blue Origin crew vehicle would provide NASA with more options when transporting humans to and from low-Earth orbit or even the Moon. Though this launch of New Glenn has been 25 years in the ...

The rocket's payload of 21 satellites was deployed to low-Earth orbit, where they will join the growing constellation of thousands of Starlink satellites that provide high-speed, low-latency ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...