"The fragments interact not only with the originating spacecraft’s nearest neighbors, but within a short time much of the ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

Hanging above was a visitor from the Oort cloud, a cluster of icy space debris far beyond our solar system. Only about 2 ...

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

Fresh off the successful New Shepard NS-27 flight, Blue Origin is making intense preparations for the first flight of its long-awaited New Glenn heavy-lift rocket. The company has rolled out New Glenn ...

Across a series of interviews, Dr. McKnight told me that low Earth orbit now ... but a renewal of the debris-free rings that propelled the start of the first race into space.

While the Kremlin has threatened to shoot down Western satellites aiding Ukraine, Planet Labs’ founders have played a pivotal ...

Four identical satellites spent decades exploring how solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field to create aurorae and other effects.

The world’s first wooden satellite has been sent to space to prove that wood is a space-grade material, and, most importantly, biodegradable.

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...