For the 300th time this year, a rocket has lifted off for low Earth orbit. SpaceX on Thursday (Dec. 11), launched its Falcon ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched another 28 satellites into low-Earth orbit Sunday, the company announced. In a news release, ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

With every rocket we launch into the Earth's orbit we're trapping ourselves on our own planet. Wait, how could sending ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Arianespace launched a Vega C, sending South Korea's KOMPSAT-7 satellite into Earth orbit, the sixth flight by the ...

Google's Project Suncatcher is a proposal to launch an 81-satellite constellation into low Earth orbit. But it must contend ...

The concept of "cloud computing" has just become literal in the most extreme way possible. In a historic first that signals a ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth’s orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies and astronauts. This debris includes large pieces, such as spent rocket ...

Astrophotographers observing Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) captured how rapidly Earth’s near-space environment is being polluted ...