A satellite that’s been dead for 50 years ended up thousands of miles away from where it should be. Instead of spending the ...

There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...

Scientists are baffled after the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which dates back to 1969, moved to an entirely different ...

When people think of spaceflight’s Apollo era, it’s either a bygone period of relentless exploration or it was completely ...

Experts clarified that on April 13, 2029, asteroid Apophis will be as close as 31,200 kilometers to Earth, which they say the ...

The satellite will move in a geostationary orbit about 36,000 kilometers above the equator at the same period as the Earth’s rotation. It will appear stationary when viewed from Earth.

SpaceX launches the Optus-X satellite for Australia, nails Falcon 9's landing, and gears up for more missions in a busy week ...

SpaceX launched a satellite for the Australian telecom company Optus on Sunday evening (Nov. 17) from Florida's Space Coast.

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a once every 5,000 to 10,000 ...

The United States has layers of sensors that can spot, track and identify ballistic missile launches such as the Russian IRBM ...

GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. These satellites require a station on Earth to keep their ...