Instead, it broke up into pieces soon after leaving the Earth’s atmosphere, and what’s left of Kosmos 482 has been stuck in a low-Earth orbit ever since. Now 53 years later, the craft is ...

They called the object the “Black Knight Satellite” and said it had been orbiting Earth for more than 13,000 years until ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Four space tourists return to Earth on a private SpaceX flight after orbiting over Earth's poles.

A stunning video taken from SpaceX's Dragon capsule by the "Framonauts" shows their view from the spacecraft orbiting Earth ... the original Fram ship that first reached the Earth’s polar ...