Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the ...

As part of NASA's International Art and Poetry Contest, Thad McCauley's students got to work creating art that could be ...

Part of the uncertainty lies within understanding 2024 YR4’s orbit and how close it will come to Earth in the future, he said. Astronomers are at the beginning of measuring the space rock’s ...

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18). An Electron vehicle carrying the first "Gen-3" satellite for the geospatial ...

How is it possible for the ISS to stay in orbit? Learn more about the science behind orbiting Earth and more in this NASA "STEMonstrations" video. Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center ...

As part of NASA's International Art and Poetry Contest, Aurora art teacher Thad McCauley entered and later learned he won. His drawing orbiting Earth on the ISS with other winners from Taiwan, Chile, ...

Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut, engineer, and photographer, recently returned to the International Space Station for his fourth mission, bringing along a homemade orbital sidereal tracker—a device ...

Elon Musk is responsible for unleashing a mystery " asteroid" that has been spotted orbiting the Earth and closer than ... was purposefully catapulted into orbit. The "asteroid" they found ...

Researchers have discovered an Earth-like planet with such an eccentric orbit that it swoops in and out of its habitable zone throughout its year. Though the super-Earth could theoretically be ...

After its close approach to the Earth, 2024 PT5 is slowly receding away in its new, more distant orbit. But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...

Nasa/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images Asteroid 2024 YR4 has an "interesting" orbit, Fast said. The elongated path takes the asteroid around the sun and into Earth's vicinity before it ventures far out ...

But as astronomers gather more data on the future orbit of 2024 YR4, the odds of a violent rendezvous with Earth will, most likely, drop precipitously to zero. The detection shows that the system ...