Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were stranded on the ISS for 286 days after their Starliner spacecraft was ...

In 2021, a Starlink satellite and OneWeb spacecraft came dangerously close to colliding in orbit.  While both companies’ ...

There are multiple factors driving the excitement and scientific investment in space travel — our innate urge to know the ...

pointing to a series of satellite training missions conducted by both countries in recent months as growing evidence of an effort to weaponize outer space. As recently as last week, Russian ...

In the first few months of 2025, there's been a flurry of private venture space missions. Some have been successful, such as ...

SpaceX and other companies plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites, which could mar astronomical observations and pollute the atmosphere.

Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...