SpaceX's Fram2 captured stunning views of the Earth as the mission's private astronauts became the first to orbit over the ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk, Grist explains. New research, published in Nature ...

Since the engines failed to reach a necessary velocity to enter Venus' orbit, Cosmos 482 was abandoned in low-Earth orbit and it has moved around the planet ever since. The spacecraft will likely ...

The spacecraft was meant to be a Venus probe. But it failed to escape low Earth orbit following its launch in 1972, according to NASA. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Center for ...

May 6 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a new group of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low-Earth orbit Tuesday night. The 28 devices rode a Falcon 9 that launched at 9:17 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 ...

Payload leftovers were marooned in Earth orbit, specifically the spacecraft's lander module/capsule intended to parachute onto the hellish landscape of Venus. "As this is a lander that was ...

The Falcon 9 carried the 28 new Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), where they will join a constellation of more than 7,200 of the internet satellites. Crew-9 | RRT-1 | Firefly Blue ...

Launched in 1972, the Kosmos 482 mission was intended to land on Venus but a malfunction during its launch meant that the spacecraft never made it out of Earth’s orbit. Now, astronomers who have ...

China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) in the Earth-moon region of space, connecting them with stable inter ...