The Artemis II astronauts broke out of Earth orbit and headed for the moon Thursday, firing their main engine for nearly six minutes to boost the ship's velocity to 24,500 mph, the speed required to ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The crew is expected to remain close to Earth for roughly 25 hours, testing systems and performing early flight ...

MOSCOW, March 24 (Reuters) - Russia said on Tuesday it had launched 16 low-orbit satellites as Moscow seeks to build a rival to Elon Musk's ‌Starlink network. Russia remains far behind Starlink, which ...

Russia’s Bureau 1440 space company launched 16 broadband Internet satellites, marking an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network that Russian officials have cast as a domestic version of ...

For most of the space age, our presence in Earth orbit has been relatively modest. Until the beginning of the 21st century, only a few hundred satellites operated around Earth at any one time, and the ...

NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to change the asteroid’s trajectory in 2022. Now, scientific observations have shown that the mission had more far-reaching effects than ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...

Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an oval path rather than a perfect circle just before they merged. This discovery ...

NASA's DART mission, which tested a planetary defense strategy, successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The mission also unexpectedly altered the orbit of Dimorphos's larger ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats ...

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar Pictures has preemptively acquired The Last Orbit, a forthcoming book from New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich, inking a deal for Matt Shakman (The Fantastic Four: First ...