The study found that, while in 2019 only 0.2% of satellites in Earth orbit were forced to perform more than 10 ...

It will be several years before any of these new commercial space stations circle the Earth at around 17,500 miles per hour ...

A natural satellite is simply a celestial object that orbits a planet or a smaller body. Unlike the ones we build and send up ...

Elon Musk’s satellite network is expected to balloon in size over the next decade. Should we be concerned? (Hint: Many experts already are.) ...

An astrophysicist interview underlines the growing risk of satellites, from the increasingly crowded skies, falling to Earth.

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...

Given this background, it becomes easy to understand how, in this scenario, China has become a global leader in the clean ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race ...

Tony Milligan received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 856543). Beyond the race for ...

The growing congestion of Earth orbit has raised risks to satellites, space stations, and long-term space sustainability. The U.S. Space Force (USSF) has responded by forming partnerships, funding ...