Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...
A national research team led by University of Alberta space physicist Ian Mann is developing a Canadian satellite mission ...
A startup that seeks to build the first-ever power grid in outer space has selected Albuquerque as its headquarters, the ...
China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...
Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out ...
The mini-satellite, named 3UCubed, was built over 5 years by students at Sonoma State, Howard and the University of New ...
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The Astronomical Problem of Space Junk

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) on Saturday announced the successful launch of PHI-1, the first modular ...
As Russia threatens nuclear attacks on Ukraine and NATO, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, European space powers are ...
Each rocket launch sends valuable materials that cannot be recovered into outer space and emits large amounts of greenhouse ...
On the ground, its rings are hard to appreciate; dunes, heat haze, and uneven terrain all conspire to hide the full shape. But from space, especially in the images taken by the Copernicus satellite, ...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced Tuesday the appointment of Taylor Jordan to lead the Office of Space ...