Simply put, gravity makes the whole universe move in ways that may seem crazy at first, but once it is better understood, it ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded junkyard, packed with dead satellites ...

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 ...

Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research "moonshot" aiming to build a data center in space. The tech giant ...

Starlink is growing fast, and SpaceX has filed paperwork for as many as 42,000 satellites. Others such as OneWeb, Amazon, ...

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 ...

Google’s Project Suncatcher would need sophisticated collision avoidance capabilities to navigate a junk-filled landscape.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers in the U.S. tested the degradation of antimony chalcogenide solar cells exposed to proton radiation. The result indicated a robust tolerance and potential for use in space.