The U.S. should expand its own blueprints to safeguard the orbital rings around Earth that could speed up or halt the next phase of human space missions, he says. Over the last two years ...

Debris from the broken-apart Intelsat 33e telecom satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening spacecraft ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Earlier in September, SpaceX launched its 7,000th Starlink satellite to orbit as part of its growing internet constellation. Starlink is currently operational in 102 countries, with SpaceX planning ...

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

Space debris can harm orbital missions ... can clear it and move it into a decaying orbit like a ring. According to researchers, Earth may soon have its own rings just like Saturn, which is ...

It shouldn’t have been a surprise. This year’s Booker Prize was awarded to Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, a chronicle of one day ...

Its next opposition will occur on September 21, 2025, when it will be in the Pisces constellation, having traveled another 29th of its orbital ... Saturn's rings are currently edge-on to the Earth.

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere block and distort light, limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments. Orbital telescopes ... broad rings of material orbiting ...

Phobos is no slowpoke. Given its size, angle, and orbital pattern, the moon makes a full-circle around Mars roughly once every 7.6 hours. This frequency also makes it far more likely to pass in front ...