The flight will last from three to five days, and will allow the crew to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit. As ...

Currently in low lunar orbit, the spacecraft is passing ... Blue Ghost has captured stunning footage of the Earth as seen from space, the moon as it approaches, and even a view of the Earth ...

When the dark side of the Moon is facing Earth we cannot see it; this is called a new moon. As the Moon starts to orbit Earth we can see more and more of the lit side. At various stages in its ...

The current state of Earth's climate has no recorded precedent. The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic ...

After aerobraking to a low earth orbit and completing its test and experimentation objectives, Mission 7 successfully performed its deorbit and landing procedures. "Mission 7 broke new ground by ...

The idea of flying satellites in "very" low-Earth orbit is not new. Dating back to the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, the first US spy satellites, as part of the Corona program ...

We knew it would be somewhere in that region that extended out either side of the moon's orbit. As more observations come that uncertainty region narrows." Now the Earth is outside of the ...

Related: Private Athena moon lander beams home gorgeous views of Earth from space (photos) Flight controllers will next analyze data to verify the lander's targeted circular orbit in order to ...

The oddities don't stop there. The total angular momentum of Earth's spin, the moon's spin and the moon's orbit is very large — far higher than for any other terrestrial planet. So how did we ...

MIT researchers calculated that as global warming caused by burning of coal, oil, gas continues it may reduce the available space for satellites in low Earth orbit by anywhere from one-third to 82 ...