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

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

A satellite that’s been dead for 50 years ended up thousands of miles away from where it should be. Instead of spending the ...

However, they cannot be said to be in low Earth orbit because they don't complete a circuit before falling back to Earth. As mentioned above, most objects we send into space are headed for low ...

Koreasat-6A will replace the existing Koreasat-6 satellite and provide television broadcasts across South Korea. It will be ...

Dragon isn't the first U.S.-built spacecraft to lend its fuel to the space station's orbit. NASA tested an ISS orbit reboost ...