For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

New LANL research team could result in design changes to spacecraft to "harden" them against space environment discharges.

A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about ...

Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary companions. These "quasi-moons" are small asteroids that enter into a kind ...

Around 13,700 satellites orbit Earth, and with over 9,000, the U.S. owns the most. It's way ahead of any other nation, ...

U.S. and Chinese military and space operations have often been captured in satellite imagery in recent years, including ...

A recent study from Nature has uncovered unusual changes occurring deep within Earth, near the core. These shifts, detected ...

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

The instrument gathers high-resolution atmospheric data on temperature, humidity, clouds, greenhouse gases, aerosols, and trace gases.

The photobomber is a satellite — specifically, one of SpaceX 's Starlink internet satellites, which Maxar identified as ...

The satellites, known as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions, came with huge risks. In 2009 the first launch attempt ...

In a recent breakthrough, astronomers have discovered a new “quasi-moon” that has been orbiting Earth after decades of being ...