Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

Fino Mornasco, Italy, January 3rd, 2023: D-Orbit, the space logistics and orbital transportation company, launched Second Star to the Right, the seventh commercial mission of ION Satellite Carrier ...

China has another sea launch under its belt. One of the country's Jielong-3 rockets (also known as Smart Dragon-3) lifted off from a floating platform off the coast of eastern China on Monday (Sept.

Genesis Space Flight Laboratories launches its Microgravity Research Rideshare Program, making it easier and more affordable ...

The last full week of 2025 will be a busy one, with nine launches scheduled on the launch manifest. Of these, only one will ...

Five Falcon 9 launches make up the launch manifest for this week. Collectively, four of them will add over 100 satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, and one will transport a single Indonesian ...

NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite has made it off the chopping block all the way to orbit. The nearly $1 billion PACE mission, which the Trump administration tried to cancel four separate times, ...

Service Provider: SpaceX – Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Europe's Vega C rocket launched for the sixth time ever today (Dec. 1), sending a powerful ...

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth’s orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies and astronauts. This debris includes large pieces, such as spent rocket ...

Arianespace has finally managed to return the Vega-C to flight carrying a Sentinel payload for the European Space Agency (ESA ...