Virgin Orbit stock subsequently dropped 14%. Now, the good news for shareholders is that despite an ongoing investigation having failed to explain the anomaly, investors appear to have forgotten their ...

I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called "Placet is a Crazy Place" by American science fiction writer Frederic Brown. In Brown's story, Placet is a planet in a ...

Earth's orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse. At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour.

SEATTLE — Virgin Orbit says its first LauncherOne mission from the United Kingdom failed to reach orbit Jan. 9 when an anomaly caused a premature shutdown of the rocket’s upper stage. In a Jan. 12 ...

Virgin Orbit is on the brink of bankruptcy, with its valuation tumbling from nearly $4 billion in 2021 to less than $100 million today. While it touted a flexible approach to launching small ...

This week has seen good news for one NASA moon mission, as the CAPSTONE satellite recovered from a communications issue, but bad news for another. The Lunar Flashlight mission, which is intended to ...

Two astronauts who have been stuck in space weeks longer than planned believe Boeing will get the pair back to Earth safely even as the troubled company’s space capsule has faced a string of problems.

Note: The following article contains spoilers about the Netflix series 3 Body Problem. I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called “Placet is a Crazy Place” by ...