Flying through Earth’s orbit are thousands of satellites and two operational space stations, including the International Space Station, which weighs as much as 77 elephants. The International Space ...

Space is no longer the final frontier it once seemed. Today, our planet's orbit resembles a cosmic junkyard where millions of ...

By 2030, the iconic ISS – where the world's astronauts have lived, worked and gazed upon the cosmos for more than two decades ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it would ...

Since the first crew of astronauts reached the International Space Station on Nov. 2, 2000, humanity has had a continuous presence among the stars.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Flying through Earth’s orbit are thousands of satellites and two operational space ...