India notched a spaceflight milestone today (Sept. 3). A GSLV Mark II rocket launched an Earth-imaging satellite toward geosynchronous orbit from Satish Dhawan Space Centre today at 5:25 p.m. EDT ...

Blue Ghost, the "little lander" from Firefly Aerospace that's headed to the moon, has captured the littlest lunar eclipse ever (as well as our hearts). Until that maneuver, however, Blue Ghost has ...

Starship reached orbit for the first time ever on Flight 14 — and it did something productive while it was up there.

Newly released footage shows Starship's upper stage separating from its booster and deploying Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.

However, the company cut the flight short after an engine malfunction, with the spacecraft splashing down in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii about three hours after liftoff from Texas. Also Read | ...

Varda Space is planning to send medicines from United Therapeutics into orbit to explore the use of microgravity in creating drugs. This is one of the first commercial research deals to develop ...

SpaceX launched a first stage booster Monday morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Its Falcon 9 is aiming to launch 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, officials said.

(via minutephysics) We think of the moon as orbiting the earth, following a spiraling trajectory as the earth itself orbits the sun. But this is wrong. Not only is the moon's orbit NOT a spiral ...

The Pentagon officially confirms the deployment of space weapons in Earth's orbit, raising concerns of a new outer space arms race. Air Force Secretary Troy Mink admits to the military presence, ...

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long history of reshaping the planet’s climate. As astronomers refine how these ...