Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds former Navy Captain, shuttle astronaut and current president of the Space operating ...

Meanwhile, SpaceX is not sitting idle. Starlink recently rolled out its much-hyped Direct-to-Cell capabilities and marked its 250th dedicated launch, with over 8,000 satellites already in orbit.

China used Earth, Moon, and Sun’s gravity to save two malfunctioning sa The satellites are now part of a navigation constellation supporting lu The rescue reflects China’s advancement in autonomous ...

It launched four days after Venera 8 but was unable to escape low-Earth orbit and broke apart. While several pieces of the spacecraft burned up quickly, others remained in orbit. Now, 53 years ...

(Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) The first strong evidence for an exoplanet with an orbit perpendicular to that of the binary system it orbits has been observed by astronomers in the UK and Portugal. Based ...

A Firefly Alpha rocket experienced a launch anomaly that left a Lockheed Martin satellite in a significantly “lower than planned orbit”, the aerospace company said on Tuesday. The mission ...

The race to bring internet from space just got exciting. Amazon has finally sent its first 27 Kuiper satellites into orbit after years of waiting. As the sun set in Florida, the launch kicked off ...

A satellite that looks like a giant parasol was launched into orbit today, and will open itself up automatically in space. The ‘space brolly’ was made by the European Space Agency, and blasted ...

With 27 satellites now in orbit around the Earth, Amazon joins a growing number of companies working to put more than 1,000 satellites each into space to create their own mega constellation.

Liftoff occurred at 5:15 a.m. ET on Tuesday (April 29). A European forest-monitoring satellite headed toward orbit from South America early Tuesday morning (April 29). The European Space Agency's ...

The spacecraft, launched in 1972, never made it past the Earth’s orbit and its remains have circled the planet for over five decades. The probe will start falling back to the Earth in a fiery ...