Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled even farther to meet an object called Arrokoth. This mysterious Kuiper Belt object, discovered only after the probe was launched, revealed surprises that ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched a second-generation navigation satellite, NVS-02, into a geosynchronous transfer orbit using a GSLV rocket in its 100th launch from ...

The three-stage, 167-foot-tall (50.9 meters) GSLV succeeded in its mission, delivering a satellite called NVS-02 to geostationary transfer orbit about 19 minutes after liftoff. NVS-02 is the ...

Credit: Orbit Fab Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Space Force is taking a measured ...

These photos contrast the star Algol at normal brightness (left) and when it's eclipsed by a close companion star 2.9 days later. Algol is located in the constellation Perseus, which is shaped ...

Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster. Why, you might reasonably ask, is a convertible car traveling through orbit? As some spaceflight enthusiasts may recall, the Tesla vehicle was launched ...

Composite image of the primordial contact binary Ultima Thule now named Arrokoth taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. A contact binary is made of two smaller, ice-rich asteroids that become ...

"Our GhostRiders captured the beauty of our home planet during another Earth orbit burn." Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way ...

This new hypothesis may help explain a lot of observations of other recently discovered two-lobed objects in the Kuiper Belt, such as the famous New Horizon mission’s observations, in 2015, of the ...

Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn rocket has successfully launched and reached orbit, though engineers failed to safely land the first-stage rocket booster back on Earth as hoped. Even so, ...