A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

LIVING in space is about to get a whole lot fancier as design companies race to get their futuristic bases floating around ...

Planet Earth is the jewel of the solar system—the shimmery blue oceans, the verdant green forests, the wispy whimsical cloud formations. Saturn is the only competitor for mo ...

Quasiperiodic changes in Earth's orbit around the sun regulate the amount of incoming solar radiation on the planet's surface as well as its distribution across latitudes, affecting the length and ...

When the moon crosses the ecliptic — Earth's orbital plane — it is known as ... doesn't cover the entire face of the sun. Instead, a ring of light is created around the moon.

Photo: Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images Hugs with family, grilled cheese and sneaking in a run—the NASA astronauts who were posted up in orbit for months are getting used to life back on Earth.

Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European ... up to 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) to low-Earth orbit. Spectrum has yet to reach orbit, but Isar ...

For the restricted ring, McInnes found that there are seven equilibrium points in the orbital plane of the dual ... orbiting Lagrange point 1.5 Mkm past Earth on the sun-Earth line.) ...

Then there's the Voyager Station, which is a giant ring that orbits ... working on plans for a low-Earth orbit space station. This high-flying base is called Orbital Reef, and is described as ...