Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the Moon. Now it has more than 15,000 – about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The world’s first trillionaire plans to launch one ...

With the most popular, revenue-generating orbits increasingly congested, Benchmark Space Systems today unveiled a breakthrough Collision Avoidance (ColA) Kit, featuring its heritage propulsion ...

A retired astronaut with five spacewalks under his belt is helping local teens dream up experiments bound for the ...

Just because NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are far from home didn't mean they weren't able to celebrate the Fourth of July like the rest of the United States. In fact, the ...

The space domain is changing faster than most realize. We are at the dawn of a new space economy — one that presents significant opportunities for people around the world. But that promise is today at ...

SpaceX has announced that it's lowering the orbits of some 4,400 Starlink satellites following a near miss with a new Chinese satellite last year. SpaceX says the shift, which will take place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Higher Orbits, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to inspiring students through space-based ...

SAULT STE. MARIE — Higher Orbits’ three-day “Go for Launch” summer camp started Tuesday at Lake Superior State University. The camp helps 8th- to 12th-graders engage in science and space exploration.

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

The contract for Impulse’s Helios vehicle provides an on-ramp to the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program, creating cost-effective assured access to high-energy orbits for ...