Welcome to Edition 7.48 of the Rocket Report! The shock of last week's public spat between President Donald Trump and SpaceX ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

Despite the offset sunrise and sunset times, the summer solstice is still the longest day of the year in terms of total ...

A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded a $1.2 billion contract on May 29 through a firm, fixed-price other transaction authority ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

An elliptical orbit is stretched ... aerobraking could save mass and allow each spacecraft headed to Mars to take more supplies. In the grand arc of space exploration, aerobraking is not just ...