Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, systems like GPS, and other scientific instruments. A small portion, about ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before - a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

Rocket Lab will launch a private radar imaging satellite to orbit tonight (March 14), and you can watch the action live An Electron vehicle carrying a single satellite for the Japan-based Earth ...

Their first tracker is now in orbit. A series of these will eventuallly generate live maps of satellites,fragments from old vessels, and debris as small as 5 cm They spent their childhoods gazing ...

WASHINGTON — Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. MIT researchers calculated ...