Sedna is drifting into a part of its path where human technology can finally contemplate catching up, and that window will ...

A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed 2024 PT5 ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Deep-water drilling is often a $10 million a day, mission-critical operation. If a signal drops, and an oil rig engineer can’t track their machinery for more than a few seconds, they have to shut down ...

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins has reached the International Space Station after the Soyuz spacecraft carrying her and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov completed a fast-track, ...

Astronomers are increasingly finding planets that do not simply circle their stars in neat, clockwork ellipses but instead trace out paths that look more like intricate choreography. The latest ...

MOSCOW, August 2. /TASS/. Russia may use a one-orbit two-hour plan of a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) during the launch of a Progress MS-20 resupply ship, Ballistics Chief at the ...

It’s getting crowded in Earth’s orbital space. More than half a million man-made objects -- ranging from as small as a speck to as large as a school bus -- are orbiting the planet at a variety of ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Wednesday, April 12th, 2023, Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. (“Virgin Orbit” or the “Company”) successfully completed a month long, full-scale test series to verify ...