Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has shared a mesmerizing view of an aurora on Earth Day. Ayers, who arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on her first orbital mission last month ...

Alongside Russian cosmonauts, Pettit not only logged tens of millions of miles and thousands of Earth orbits but also celebrated his 70th birthday in style — with a parachute-assisted landing in ...

Concern is growing about the 130 million pieces of space debris orbiting Earth, as space exploration increases. Space researchers are advising that the debris needs to be cleaned up before the ...

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Many Shiyan satellites operate in low Earth or near-polar orbits, though a number have headed to geosynchronous orbits, including the possible inspector satellites Shiyan12-01 and 02. Shiyan-10 ...

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

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