A beloved dog named Franz will take his final leap this weekend — into Earth’s orbit. The yellow labrador’s ashes will be on board the inaugural Perseverance Flight from Texas-based Celestis ...

Carl Dunrud steadied himself against the small schooner. It was 1926 and the Yellowstone Park ranger and Wyoming cowboy had a lasso ready as he eyed his target. Looking back at him was a polar bear ...

Chinese satellites may have attempted the first-ever in-orbit satellite refueling, according to two U.S. satellite tracking companies. The report was published by Breaking Defense. A Chinese satellite ...

The company is building a very low Earth orbit constellation that uses the 5G mmWave spectrum to provide high-speed, low-latency connectivity, even in rural, remote or crisis-affected areas.

Kaib previously published work that suggested Earth's orbit was altered by a passing star three million years ago. “We looked at the typical, run-of-the-mill flybys,” Raymond told New Scientist.

SpaceX has launched 26 more Starlink satellites to the ever-growing constellation of internet relay stations in low Earth orbit. The flight took off at 8:36 p.m. PDT (11:36 p.m. EDT or 0336 GMT, June ...

Two Chinese-built satellites may be on the verge of conducting an on-orbit, satellite-to-satellite refueling activity for the first time, U.S. space situational awareness company Slingshot ...

To create these conditions, the team used a “hind-limb unloading” model. It’s a common method for simulating microgravity in rodents. The researchers placed the mice in tilted positions to remove ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -The head of China's central bank pledged to expand the international use of the digital yuan and called for the development of a multi-polar global currency system ...

Norwegian Monarch Visits Polar Svalbard as Interest in Arctic Grows By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja visited the main settlement on the strategically located ...

The second-generation Chinese polar-orbit meteorological satellite Fengyun-3D carries the MEdium-Resolution Spectral Imager (MERSI-II). MERSI-II has 19 solar channels and 6 middle and thermal infrared ...

This paper presents details of techniques for generating thermal infrared and visible composite images from the cloud-free portions of temporally closely spaced MODerate resolution Imaging ...