When electronics meet cosmic rays, bad things can happen. Chip makers need to test what their products can withstand, and ...
A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...
Companies are using the Earth's atmosphere like a dumpster. The post Rapid Space Launches Shifting the Chemistry of Earth’s ...
Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.
Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...
Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...
The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.
New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.
A new NASA authorization bill moving through the U.S. Senate would extend the International Space Station’s life among other ...
In the 20th century, scientists began to suspect Earth was a lot older than we thought. It was our old friends/deadly foes, ...
A recent SpaceNews opinion article argued that it is time to “take astronomy off Earth.” The suggestion is straightforward: If satellite constellations and commercial space activity threaten ...
Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercial outposts more time to step into its shoes.