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A Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Progress MS-24 cargo spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

A day after the failed attempt to launch a spy satellite, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister pledged that Pyongyang will "correctly" place a military reconnaissance satellite into orbit soon, Yonhap News Agency reported.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon’s orbit this weekend.

Low-earth orbit satellite communications company OneWeb has confirmed the successful deployment and contact of 40 satellites launched by SpaceX.

Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago.

NASA’s Orion capsule entered an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles around the moon Friday, as it neared the halfway mark of its test flight.

An unmanned U.S. military space plane landed early Saturday after spending a record 908 days in orbit for its sixth mission and conducting science experiments.

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA

SpaceX launched 46 more Starlink satellites into orbit from California on Friday.

A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday.