A spacecraft has successfully closed in on a massive chunk of metal zipping around Earth, capturing images of it—a big leap ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a global leader in launch services and space systems, ...

Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

Credit: Varda Space Industries The new mission is underway on orbit just ... space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and communications. Rocket Lab’s spacecraft platforms ...

During the formative days of SpaceX, I remember a long, grueling night in a tiny workshop in California. We’d experienced ...

The head of Poland’s space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory.

When fiery debris from SpaceX Starships rained down across the Atlantic, air traffic controllers scrambled to delay takeoffs ...

Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, ...

The rocket left South Florida and the Earth's atmosphere just before 7:10 p.m. ET Friday night. CNN covered the flight in its ...

Under SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's vision, humans could then land on the Red Planet in 2029, though he admitted 2031 is "more ...