Assuming Google does manage to launch a prototype in 2027, will it simply be a high-stakes technical experiment – or the ...

Millions of pieces of debris now circle Earth in space. Scientists are exploring new ways to remove them and protect future ...

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 ...

A circular space economy could transform wasteful spaceflight into a sustainable, reusable system for the future.

COCOA, Fla., Aug. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vaya Space, the vortex-hybrid engine rocket company and emerging leader in sustainable space access, announced today that it has entered into a long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have for the first time confirmed the merger of two highly eccentric black holes. Egg-shaped eccentric orbits form when two black holes spiral towards each other and collide under each ...

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 ...