NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Thursday, Dec. 5, for its ...

Boffins say an increase in satellites and space junk could see humans trapped on Earth because these things make low Earth ...

Space experts have cautioned against the exponential rise in satellite launches in the low earth orbit (LEO) and resultant ...

ESA has launched three other Proba missions thus far, with one currently observing the Sun. Proba-2 launched in 2009, and was ...

The New Space Race Since the last landing on the Moon by Apollo 17 in 1972, men have not ventured into space further than near-Earth orbit. This can also be considered the date at which space ...

SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, August 20 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

What's harder than flying a single satellite in Earth orbit? Flying two—right beside each other, at proximities that would ...

Since Donald Trump's recent electoral victory, rumors and speculation have circulated that Nasa's giant moon rocket, the ...

Most civilian satellites are very sensitive to high-energy radiation and an atomic explosion in low Earth orbit would ...

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became ...

Lightning strikes in the atmosphere can trigger a rain of high-powered “killer electrons” in low-Earth orbit that form ...