A new NASA mission is set to launch that will study the effects of Earth’s magnetic field on us. NASA and SpaceX are set to ...

In a stunning twist worthy of Star Wars, scientists have discovered a real-world counterpart to Tatooine — a planet orbiting ...

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX on Monday launched its latest mission for paying customers: This time, a Crew Dragon spacecraft is carrying a cryptocurrency billionaire and three guests on ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

In heavy fog, SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites late Monday, firing 51 upgraded relay stations into polar orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Their core objective was to fly a 90-degree polar orbit, comfortably the highest inclination ever reached by a crewed spacecraft, to observe the poles from low-Earth orbit for the first time.

The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.

On Sunday, SpaceX will attempt to launch a satellite into a polar orbit from Cape Canaveral — something that hasn’t been done in 60 years.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. — Sunday evening, SpaceX completed something Florida has not seen in decades: a polar orbit launch. While the weather was iffy, SpaceX's teams managed to ...

SpaceX has flown satellites into polar orbit from Florida before, using a dogleg maneuver that required SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to fly eastward over the Atlantic Ocean before veering ...

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX on Monday launched its latest mission for paying customers: This time, a Crew Dragon spacecraft is carrying a ...