First license plates, now a way to calculate velocity in orbit. Speeding tickets next? Researchers at the Los Alamos National ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Lost Orbit: Terminal Velocity Prepare to once again embark on a perilous journey filled with deadly asteroids, orbital boosts and the emptiness of space, ...

When you back off from Earth at the Stuff in Space site, satellites look like a swarm of gnats. Many circle the Earth in LEO or low-Earth orbit. Many others orbit in some 22,200 miles (35,750 km) from ...

3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet that has traveled from outside the solar system, with a diameter of 10 to 20 kilometers.

Late in 2024, a small asteroid stirred astronomers. Discovered on December 27, the asteroid rock—since christened 2024 ...

Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread out over the entire Earth’s inhabited areas. Although still a large number, it is absolutely ...

HELSINKI — China appears set to launch the first satellites for a long-expected national low Earth orbit megaconstellation after rollout of a Long March 5B rocket at Wenchang spaceport. Images posted ...

The bizarre blob was traveling at 30% the speed of light. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have detected a blob of hot ...

Rendering of Orbit Fab’s refueling service architecture consists of propellant depots in various orbits, and shuttles that will deliver fuel from those depots to client spacecraft. Credit: Orbit Fab ...

Our readers continue to grapple with this one, with the latest batch of answers giving a more hopeful response to any readers ...

Planetary scientists are working to establish the origin of a bright fireball seen over Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England on the evening of 14 September. The spectacular event, spotted ...