The International Space Station orbits about 250 miles above Earth. Although the atmosphere at that altitude is wispy, it still exerts enough drag to slow the ISS and cause it to lose altitude.

A medley of elements make life on Earth possible, yet the ways in which our planet has gained them — and lost some in the process — have been on scientists’ minds for years. The major building blocks ...

The International Space Station is scheduled to be destroyed by 2030, but there are several stations under construction that could carry on its work.

About seven years from now, in 2032, an asteroid orbiting the Sun will fly so close to Earth that it has a little over 1 percent chance of impact. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, stands out as the only ...

V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a suborbital trajectory. The cameras continued ...

So-called modern progress has depended on exploiting the Earth’s resources as if they had no end. We’ve lost touch with the ancient wisdom that we are partners with Earth and all life on it. Now is ...

four light-years from Earth. This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In her office on the 17th floor of MIT’s Building 54, Sara Seager is about as close to ...

Abstract: The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) is a small society representing a vast group of people who perform measurements, sometimes with sophisticated instruments daily. What ...

China is building a space-based solar power station which its developers say will generate more energy annually than all of Earth's oil. TikTok no longer accessible in US Actors Who Did It Better ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored ...

As of February 7, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 2.3 percent chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032 ...

SPEEDWAY, Ind. — A "re-imagined" Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is set to reopen this spring after more than a year of renovations. The facility, which will feature 40,000 square feet of ...