Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com ...

Cloud cover is an important factor to consider when looking for the northern lights, and the Met Office has predicted there ...

The year 2025 ended with more than 14,000 active satellites from all nations zooming around the Earth. One-third of them will soon move to lower altitudes. The maneuvers will be undertaken by SpaceX, ...

Earth’s orbit is getting overcrowded, increasing the risk of satellite collisions that could disrupt vital services, create dangerous debris clouds, and—in some cases—send chunks of wreckage careening ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The earth’s journey around the Sun is not a perfect circle. Instead, our planet follows a slightly oval-shaped path called an ellipse, meaning our distance from the Sun changes ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

A spaceman has captured jaw-dropping views of aurora from orbit. NASA astronaut Jonny Kim shared the scene from aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as he viewed the phenomenon from 260 miles ...

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

As global demand for computing continues to explode, the carbon footprint of data centers is a growing concern. A new study outlines how hosting these facilities in space could help slash the sector’s ...

The reflectors would orbit Earth in a sun-synchronous orbit, which would cause them to circle Earth from pole to pole, perpendicular to the planet's spin. They would be positioned to constantly align ...