Spacesuits were an important consideration that Nasa had to factor into its plans to bring the astronauts back home. Wilmore ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The East Coast of the United States is getting a new watchful eye over its skies as the National Ocean and ...

Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.

International Space Laws were created during the Cold War, when space exploration was shaped by military sensitivities. Now, private companies own 11,000 active satellites orbiting Earth ...

In the first few months of 2025, there’s been a flurry of private venture space missions. Some have been successful, such as American company Firefly Aerospace landing its spacecraft Blue Ghost ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory has introduced the "Spacecraft Speedometer," a novel technology for tracking satellites in ...

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — About an hour and a half drive east of Tucson, nestled out in the desert, is a unique structure whose ...

which monitors orbital debris. That junk includes results of old space crashes and parts of rockets with most of it too small to be tracked. There are 11,905 satellites circling Earth — 7,356 in low ...

A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth’s orbit because of climate ... Instead, they are stuck orbiting in a less dense ...