We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

The first four humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles have safely returned to Earth.

China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages for decades or beyond, according to analysts.

W HERE IS THE best place to build a data centre? Not on Earth at all, but in orbit, claims Philip Johnston, chief executive ...

Researchers at MIT found that greenhouse gases are causing Earth’s upper atmosphere to shrink. Gradually, this will lead to ...

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

sending four spaceflight rookies into a north-to-south trajectory in low-Earth orbit at an altitude of about 271 miles (437 kilometers). From their novel perspective, the "Framonauts" were able to ...

Scientists reckon there are 130 million pieces of space junk in the sky, all hurtling through space at 25 times the speed of sound. They could put our whole space programme at risk.

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday night from Florida.

ESA’s debris modelling tool MASTER shows that in the low-Earth orbit range of around 550km altitude there is now the same order of magnitude of debris objects posing a threat as there are active ...