There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...

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 ...

Three satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere earlier than expected due ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch another round of Starlink satellites into lower Earth orbit, with a launch set to leave the ...

In a rare show of openness about the space plane's operations, Boeing and the U.S. Space Force released a statement last ...

In a conversation about her Booker Prize-winning novel 'Orbital,' author Samantha Harvey delved into the process of depicting ...

The BlueWalker 3 satellite was fully deployed, making it the "largest-ever commercial communications array in low Earth orbit ...

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense touts its Merritt Island factory as the world’s first high-volume satellite production facility.

Today, unregulated orbital trash now permeates a region of space around Earth called low Earth orbit, or LEO. "LEO is an orbital space junk yard," NASA explained. "There are millions of pieces of ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

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 ...