Fram2's orbit flew Dragon on a north-to-south trajectory in low Earth orbit at an altitude of about 271 miles (437 kilometers ...

NASA has been tracking a house-sized asteroid in the vicinity of Earth that is hurtling through space at a zippy 42,300 miles per hour. Known as "2025 HM4," the asteroid's path brought it within a ...

former Soviet spacecraft that has been orbiting the Earth for over 50 years is about ... a daily resource for information about space and our planet, the former Soviet Union launched Kosmos ...

This makes it only the second known piece of the Moon found orbiting in near-Earth space. "If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier," said Teddy Kareta, a planetary ...

Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth on Wednesday (April 30, 2025) after six months on China's space station. The crew’s landing module came down slowly after separating from the return ...

Each cloud represents in visible form (due to water droplets) a rising column of air,” the Earth Observatory says ... to the responsible use of space and to ensure the safety of people here ...

Payload leftovers were marooned in Earth orbit, specifically the ... that this might be the parachute that came out. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events ...

This photograph taken by an International Space Station astronaut shows a bright meteor from the Perseid meteor shower in Earth’s atmosphere ... EGUpress releases under embargo (if applicable ...

When a distant volcano erupted under the Pacific ... to the edge of space. Spotting these clues in time could help in future eruption alerts. Understanding Eruptions Beyond Earth’s Surface ...

Astronomers had never seen anything like it before – something vast, in the depths of space, went boom. Telescopes on Earth picked up the astonishingly bright and unusual explosion in 2018 ...