Polaris Dawn orbited our little round planet six times during that height. This also meant that Menon and Gillis are the first women in history to reach a high-altitude orbit.

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

The Polaris Dawn crew Jared Isaacman, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon explain the experiments conducted ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

About the mission The 23 satellites from the Starlink company, owned by SpaceX, will be heading to low-Earth orbit to join the thousands already there. Once deployed and in their orbit, they will ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit The mission, which Rocket Lab called "Symphony in the Stars," sent the satellite to a circular orbit 650 kilometers (404 miles ...