As the space industry continues to grow, the environmental impact of space missions becomes an increasingly urgent concern. A new study published in Chem Circularity on December 1, 2025, proposes a ...

Time in space affects the body, but research has found that it can also quite literally affect the mind, prompting questions ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded scrapyard, packed with dead satellites, spent rocket stages, and fragments that no longer serve any purpose.

Russian nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles roll across Red Square in Moscow, American intelligence agencies discovered Moscow is now developing a nuclear-armed spacecraft to loft into ...

Reading about space exploration used to be one of the most exciting parts of my day. I'd log on to work and look for the latest stories surrounding NASA's ongoing missions. I reported often on what ...

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft headed to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft launched in October 2023 and will ...

Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed and tested a micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) detection and characterization system designed for satellites and spacecraft to monitor impacts ...