A highly secretive US spacecraft is set to embark on a series of innovative flight manoeuvres in Earth's orbit. The spacecraft, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7), is an experimental space ...

A Russian rocket will launch two privately built Iranian satellites into orbit early Tuesday, the Iranian embassy in Moscow said, hailing close space cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.

NASA is working on plans to send another helicopter to Mars. The craft would land itself after screaming into the planet’s atmosphere at speed, before covering several kilometres a day while ...

An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth's orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 ...

A U.S. Air Force service member prepares a Starlink modem for a performance test at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Credit: U.S. Air Force Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

Satellites launching in mid-2026 for Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation in low Earth orbit are set to be the first to use MDA Space’s software-defined Aurora platform in orbit. Credit ...

Aerobraking, on the other hand, uses the friction of Earth's atmosphere to help guide a spacecraft to a new orbit. "When we aerobrake, we utilize atmospheric drag to effectively step down our ...

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2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

The amount of debris in orbit around Earth is increasing rapidly. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates there are more than 40,000 pieces larger than 10cm in orbit, and more than 130,000,000 ...

NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects ...