Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

A new study published in The Innovation highlights the launch of Haishao-1 (HS-1), China's first low-inclination orbit ...

O penAI's large language model (LLM) ChatGPT is surprisingly good at piloting spacecraft, according to a team that trained it ...

Asteroids around Venus, shown in the background above during a 2012 transit, are difficult to track because they fall inside Earth's orbit and are obscured by the sun's glare.

Passing stars jostle the solar system and could someday cause another planet to smash into Earth (shown here in a satellite image) or eject it from the solar system altogether. NASA By Ken Croswell ...

Spacecraft that orbit around Earth do so in two types of orbits: circular and elliptical. In a circular orbit, the spacecraft is always at the same distance from the center of the Earth.

Starlink is moving satellites closer to the space station, McDowell noted. Chinese systems are going to higher orbits, where and could remain for centuries.

Spacecraft that orbit around Earth do so in two types of orbits: circular and elliptical. In a circular orbit, the spacecraft is always at the same distance from the center of the Earth.

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them ...

But according to the European Space Agency, it's getting incredibly crowded – at least around our planet. A European Space Agency report released April 1 studied the space above Earth.

This study comes as the number of confirmed exoplanets from NASA has reached 5,839 with 1,738 being designated as super-Earth (radii between Earth and Neptune/Uranus) and 213 being designated as ...