The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

"Orbital," by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.

The team’s Oak Ridge Base Foundation Model for Earth System Predictability, or ORBIT, draws on 113 billion model parameters ...

The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 satellite, launched in 2022 and ...

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 ...

Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by ...

These plans call for securing financial commitments from potential customers, including government and commercial space agencies looking for research opportunities in low Earth orbit. The ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

Since the Soviets launched the first satellite in 1957, humans have put tens of thousands of objects in Earth’s orbit. Each dot represents one of 9,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. They enable ...

AI-driven technologies are on the cusp of unlocking true autonomy in orbit, with the potential to enable spacecraft to operate independently and deliver more customized, intelligently managed data to ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...