Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth’s polar ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is due to close down by 2030, and Russia, one of its main partners, is designing its own replacement orbital laboratory. After a decade of planning to place its ...

Russia intends to place a space station into polar orbit, giving it an unparalleled view over a vital strategic region. The Russo-American divorce is not only impacting international relations on ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

A Long March 6A rocket lifts off at night from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China, carrying the Yaogan-40 (03) remote sensing satellites. Credit: Ourspace HELSINKI — China added a third trio of ...

Russia has launched the Bion-M No. 2 biological research mission to test radiation effects on living species when in polar orbit, where Russia plans to deploy its next crewed space station. Russian ...

A troubled European rocket critical to the continent’s goal of reducing its reliance on Elon Musk’s SpaceX thundered off a launchpad and delivered a satellite into space on a third-ever mission ...

July 27 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc, Calif. The mission put 24 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. It will deploy the ...

July 19 (UPI) --SpaceX launched 24 more Starlink satellites late Friday from California into low-Earth orbit. The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8:52 p.m. PDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base's pad 4 East.

Lightning flashed in the distance as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, carrying a Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts on a journey no other space traveler has taken ...

At the end of last month, SpaceX conducted the first-ever polar-orbit human spaceflight mission, and it’s just shared some stunning footage (below) that was captured during the epic voyage. Views from ...