A new frontier in space sustainability may have just opened. In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, scientists ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...

These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

The rules we have were designed to prevent disaster, not manage growth. It’s time for a smarter, more adaptable approach.

Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those launches weren't registered internationally? While more and more orbital objects ...

"Capturing another satellite like this in an Earth-observation image is extremely rare." One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airbase in ...

Contact systems physically interact with debris through means such as nets or harpoons and slow it down to a safe level for deorbiting. The challenge with this approach is that most debris is spinning ...

It has been two weeks since SpaceX’s last Starship test flight, and engineers have diagnosed issues with its heat shield, identified improvements, and developed a preliminary plan for the next time ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. As SpaceX’s Starlink constellation grows, expect the company’s satellites to occasionally photo bomb astronomy images, ...

Increased space launches are testing the limits of insurance, as space insurers’ results are reportedly plummeting back into the stratosphere. In what may be the ultimate coverage gap, more than ...