Relatedly, astronomers may have just pushed the upper size limit of what counts as a planet.

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine wilderness and more like a crowded shipping lane, with thousands of ...

A new proposal suggests borrowing the "Conference of the Parties" model from climate diplomacy to update space law before ...

Space is no longer the final frontier it once seemed. Today, our planet's orbit resembles a cosmic junkyard where millions of debris pieces hurtle at devastating speeds, turning what should be ...

These changes aren’t permanent – the brain goes gradually back to normal after coming back to Earth. Understanding the ...

The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit in 2003 but now boasts spaceflight capabilities second only to the United States. The second trend is the ...

As humans prepare for longer missions to the moon and Mars, scientists are trying to understand how space affects the human body. One of the biggest concerns is space radiation — high-energy particles ...

New research in understanding aging and disease – and how to potentially reverse it – is both on the earth and in the stars. University of California, San Diego researchers working out of the Sanford ...

For the last month, NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, has been giving interviews and speeches around the world, offering a singular message: “We are going to beat the Chinese to the Moon.” ...

What was once the domain of national space agencies and scientific research, satellite data, orbital imagery, and Earth intelligence is now becoming foundational to enterprise IT strategy. Some ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host Sandra Erwin sits down with former NASA astronaut and Space Force leader Brig. Gen. Nick Hague for a wide-ranging conversation on how the U.S. Space Force is ...