Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Newsom calls special session to ...

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 ...

Even tiny pieces of debris zipping around in LEO can be hazardous to spacecraft, making low Earth orbit inaccessible if the problem spirals out of control. There's even a name for that ...

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one ... 4.6 million miles from Earth’s orbit around the sun — are discovered every year ...

“There is some luck involved, because you would expect only around one ... a white dwarf, the Sun will lose half its mass, and Earth, if it survives, may expand its orbit to twice its current ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon ... rocky object that orbits the sun. Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn posted a simulation to X of what the asteroid's ...

The Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a final swing past Venus on November 6, which will nudge it into an extremely tight orbit around our sun. Once it reaches its final position around our ...

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 ...

In a release, the US Space Force said that the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) is set to carry aerobraking, which will allow it to adjust its orbit around Earth and safely discard its service ...