A 70-foot rocket blasted off from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747 over the Pacific Ocean Wednesday, marking the second successful orbital flight for rocket startup Virgin Orbit. The plane, nicknamed ...

Don't look now, but our entire planet is busily chasing after an asteroid a thousand feet across that's preceding the Earth in its orbit. It's the first known Earth-orbit example of what are called ...

As a true milestone on the path to autonomous space systems, a research team at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is another possible candidate—planets circling white dwarfs, the hot, dense remnants ...

WASHINGTON — The startup Starfish Space has secured a $37.5 million contract with the U.S. Space Force to develop, launch, and operate the company’s Otter satellite servicing vehicle in geostationary ...

Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in quiet company with our planet for decades, pacing our planet in nearly ...

It’s now official—the launch company Virgin Orbit is being sold for parts. In a new filing as part of the bankruptcy process, Rocket Lab purchased the company’s main production facility in Long Beach, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Virgin Orbit officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday after failing to secure proper funding following a rocket launch ...

Space is indifferent to your suffering. It doesn’t care that it’ll freeze you to death unless you’re wearing a fancy suit, or that even before freezing you’ll suffocate in its vacuum. And it certainly ...

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Many maps of the solar system make it look as though everything in space moves in perfect, concentric circles. Planets orbit the sun, and moons orbit the planets. So that must be the case for ...

March 19 (Reuters) - (This March 19 story has been corrected to change the company's description to satellite launch company, not aircraft engineering company, in paragraph 1) Sign up here. Richard ...