Earth has a bit of a space junk problem in low orbit. Currently, there are around 9,500 active satellites floating up in space with myriad purposes, but there are countless other defunct bits of junk ...

For kids of the ’60s, it was a thrilling weekly ride and for adults revisiting it later, it became a time capsule of an era when television dared to mix earnest family drama with outlandish spectacle.

Summary: A new GAO report says in-space servicing and manufacturing could revolutionize how we build, fix, and even recycle satellites. But while the tech is promising, the report warns that policy ...

"We have now achieved all the technical requirements for controlling complex robotic missions on Mars — and for a future permanent lunar research station." Two four-legged robots recently explored a ...

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into low Earth orbit. This event signaled to many the beginning of a space race between the United States and ...

There was a time when looking up at the night sky stirred a visceral sense of wonder. The moon landing, the Shuttle launches, the Voyager missions — these were moments that gripped the public ...

It’s a big loss for efforts to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for leaking infrastructure. It’s a big loss for efforts to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for leaking infrastructure ...

Nicholas James Rattenbury works for The University of Auckland. He has received funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and Royal Society Te Apārangi. He is affiliated ...

An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of methane emissions across the globe, only survived about 15 months in Earth’s ...

MethaneSAT, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) methane-tracking satellite backed by the Bezos Earth Fund, is lost in space. Its ground team lost contact with the spacecraft on June 20 but tried to ...

An $88 million satellite designed to measure methane emissions in oil and gas producing regions across the world has been lost in space, according to the satellite’s developer the Environmental ...