A global chorus of condemnation followed North Korea's launch of a rocket that apparently put an object into orbit, with the United States, Japan, and South Korea describing the launch as intolerable.
With the surprise launch of a rocket that apparently put an object into orbit, North Korea showed that it was clearing key technical hurdles toward mastering intercontinental ballistic missile technology.
Trojan asteroids are objects that exist in gravitationally stable regions in front of or behind another body. The asteroid shares the same orbit with Earth, but the two will never collide.
A space aircraft that can take off from an ordinary airport runway before carrying tourists into orbit could be a reality with 10 years, according to British scientists.
The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, MA determined that two asteroids, several meters in diameter and in unrelated orbits, would pass the Earth on September 8th.
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a planet that orbits two stars. The system poses multiple conundrums to scientists, and probably has some fantastic horizons.
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a planet that orbits two stars. The system poses multiple conundrums to scientists, and probably has some fantastic horizons.
Fuming mistress, YaVaughnie, catapulted retribution into a new orbit by plastering the country with billboards that show her nuzzling Charles E. Phillips.
The MESSENGER spacecraft has delivered the first pictures ever taken from orbit around the planet Mercury, and NASA expects thousands more as it probes the surface.
Two German radar satellites are flying within 350 meters of each other as they orbit the globe in an effort to creating a seamless and incredibly accurate 3D map of the Earth.