China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites, known as SJ-21 and SJ-25 for short, likely docked together in geosynchronous ...

In a quiet week for rocket launches worldwide, SpaceX has launched the 500th orbital flight of a Falcon 9 during its first of ...

Catch the full moon rise over the southeastern horizon on June 10. Look up — or rather, down — tonight to spot the lowest full moon in nearly two decades. This month's full moon will ride low on the ...

The Australian company Gilmour Space is back at the launch pad with its Eris-1 rocket, preparing for the country's first ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

SpaceX will end up launching an orbital mission nearly every other day in 2025, if all goes according to plan. "We're targeting 170 launches by the end of the year," Anne Mason, director of ...

Earth is set to experience unusually short days in July and August 2025. The Moon's orbital position is subtly accelerating ...

A German start-up’s orbital rocket spun out and crashed seconds after take-off Sunday, in a rare European test flight that the makers said “met its set goals.” ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier.. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the ...

With safety at the heart of crewed operations, SpaceX needs calm weather conditions to launch four crewmembers to orbit tonight.

At 136 pages, it is also the second-shortest novel to win since the prize’s founding in 1969. “Orbital” beat five other shortlisted titles. These include Percival Everett’s ...