For decades, the Kármán Line, set at an altitude of 100 kilometers (or 62 miles) above sea level, has been the widely ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, a team of ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the ...

New research shows the blast triggered secondary gravity waves that rattled the upper atmosphere, where satellites orbit.

The Aquarids meteor shower is set to peak this week. Everyone in the U.S. will have a chance to catch a glimpse.

leading the scientists to conclude that pulsations in the flare occurred almost in sync with those in the Earth's atmosphere. O'Hare, who is a member of an International Space Science Institute ...

Captured by an External High-Definition Camera (EHDC) on the ISS, this oblique image looks toward the sunlight of dawn as the orbiting outpost passed over the northwest Atlantic Ocean, about 300 ...

That’s a much lower risk than some other pieces of space debris. At least a few defunct rocket parts reenter Earth’s atmosphere each year, Sorge noted, and many have carried higher odds of ...

Daily life increasingly depends on systems of satellites orbiting Earth ... the atmosphere. SpaceX is the most prodigious launcher, but it’s far from the only company looking to fill space.