The formation of Earth is a story of cosmic complexity involving countless processes across millions of years. It began with the solar nebula, a swirling disk of gas and dust, where fractionation ...

The bigger of the two asteroids is travelling at a speed of 6.4 km per second while the smaller one is racing at 7.2 km per second. Despite their velocity, NASA confirms they will safely pass by, ...

The spacecraft, set to be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, will circle the planet in a low-Earth orbit for approximately three days.

Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With more than 11,000 active satellites and many thousands more expected in the ...

When Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla looked out of the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time, he saw something that no textbook, simulator, or training module could ...

But factors such as the Sun’s position, the Moon’s orbit, and Earth’s gravitational field influence how quickly the Earth completes its daily cycle.

Boeing's launch of two O3b mPOWER satellites aboard a Falcon 9 boosts SES's mid‑Earth orbit network with enhanced global broadband capacity and resilience.

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to construct ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

America's most experienced astronaut and three international crewmates plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule early Tuesday, closing out a 20-day commercial flight to the ...

As more satellites are launched into orbit, space agencies are looking at how to predict space weather events that could harm them.

Satellites orbit the Earth in flat planes fixed in inertial space. It's not a perfect interpretation, but it's easiest to understand this concept by imagining the background of stars in the sky as ...