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

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

Such an object with less than 0.25 eccentricity (a roughly circular orbit), therefore, would have an average altitude of 2,042 km (1,269 mi). The ISS is in a low Earth orbit. Credit: NASA Despite ...

An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth's orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 ...

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 ...

The integration will give the eccentricity increase along one orbit of the Moon around the Earth. Potential always produces a positive and symmetrical effect about the axis of the ellipse. If we ...

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 ...

A U.S. Air Force service member prepares a Starlink modem for a performance test at Kadena Air Base, Japan. Credit: U.S. Air Force Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every ...

An Intelsat internet satellite has mysteriously broken apart in Earth's orbit, raising concerns about the cause and the risk of space debris colliding with other satellites. On Saturday, the ...