Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on the ...
Millions of pieces of debris now circle Earth in space. Scientists are exploring new ways to remove them and protect future ...
The odometer on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is about to turn over 100,000. That’s not 100,000 miles but the number of orbits it has made around Earth since it was launched aboard the space shuttle ...
Artist Impression of LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Credit: NASA Ever since the telescope was invented in 1608, astronomers have striven for bigger and better telescopes. When it comes ...
A circular space economy could transform wasteful spaceflight into a sustainable, reusable system for the future.
Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research "moonshot" aiming to build a data center in space. The tech giant ...
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems signed an agreement with the Space Development Agency to conduct experiments for optical inter-satellite links using the company’s laser communication terminals ...
Starlink is growing fast, and SpaceX has filed paperwork for as many as 42,000 satellites. Others such as OneWeb, Amazon, ...
This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...
All four amateur astronauts on the flight have been training for months since the flight crew was announced in March. EPA Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Friday shared more images from inside its Crew Dragon ...