Placing a mass driver on the moon has long been a dream of space exploration enthusiasts. It would open up so many ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

In 1969, this cylindrical-shaped satellite was placed over eastern Africa in geostationary orbit to support British military communications. After ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

On November 10, 2013, Europe's GOCE satellite fell to Earth. GOCE is short for Gravity field and steady-state Ocean ...

The UK’s Skynet-1A satellite has mysteriously changed its orbit, raising concerns about its control and safety.

SpaceX is expected to send a French-made satellite into space on Monday but the focus will be on the first stage usable ...

Amid public concern, NASA said the Starliner astronauts and the other five spacefarers living in orbit "undergo routine ...

For centuries, gravity has been a source of fascination for scientists. Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Newton and ...

NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...

Scientists are using laser-based tracking and gravity data to improve how we monitor both satellites and space debris. By blending these methods, they can now predict orbits more precisely and gather ...