In the cool October air of 2024, two snapshots—a portion of the Great Wall of China and a sun-drenched courtyard at South ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

A proposed mission seeks to retrieve Vanguard-1 and display it as an ancient relic of the space age.

The U.S. Space Force continues to prepare to fight a war in Earth's orbit.

The program would support China's future lunar exploration mission, including providing space-based inter-satellite ...

China launched two satellites atop a Yuanzheng-1S mounted on a Long March-2C rocket. While the first and second stages were ...

In the intense early days of the space race, a small, unusual satellite was launched into space sixty-seven years ago.

A trio of recently launched satellites will watch the sun's energy whack the Earth, helping us predict solar storms ...

China's latest human spaceflight mission is headed for orbit early Thursday morning (April 24), and you can watch the action ...

The company now plans to extend into on-orbit servicing and refueling missions, end-of-mission disposal, and cross-orbit ...

There is a little known space race underway: the development of a more nimble generation of rockets that can transport ...

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean enough to ...