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.

The Earth could be soon flung out of orbit or into the sun - all thanks to a passing star Either way, the sun is likely slated to consume Earth in billions of years ...

Asteroids with ‘unstable orbits’ hide around Venus—do they threaten Earth? New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Space startup LeoLabs operates seven radar sites — including this one in Western Australia — that monitor objects in low Earth orbit. (LeoLabs) The Space Force recently launched a survey of ...

SpaceX early Tuesday launched another batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Florida's east coast.

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth after more than a half-century being stuck in orbit from a failed launch to Venus.

Soviet spacecraft plunging back to Earth 53 years after launching A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus more than 50 years ago plunged to Earth on Saturday.

Here is what to know about Cosmos 482. What was Cosmos 482 The name Cosmos (or Kosmos) was given to Soviet spacecraft that remained in Earth's orbit beginning in 1962, regardless of whether that ...

Since 2011, NASA and the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory have engaged in public-private partnerships with entrepreneurial United States companies to bootstrap a commercial ...

A Soviet space probe stuck in orbit since a failed 1972 launch has finally crashed to Earth. At 9:24 a.m. Moscow time (2:24 a.m. EDT) on May 10, the spacecraft, dubbed Kosmos 482, entered Earth ...

A new European Space Agency report states Earth's orbit could become 'unusable' due to space debris.