NASA will launch the Roman Space Telescope this September—8 months early—to map 12% of the sky and probe cosmic mysteries ...

Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects drifting, spinning, and hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood, some of them ...

On Earth, people grip objects to ensure they don't fall. In space, this process changes: When astronauts hold an object ...

Astronomers have identified a mysterious deep-space object that appears to defy current scientific understanding, prompting renewed debate about how the universe forms and evolves over time. The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

Vantor, the satellite-imagery firm previously called Maxar Intelligence, said it has recently inked a $2.3 million contract to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and other United ...

Just in May of this year, the Soviets struck a ground target from orbit. Never mind that they didn't intend to; in fact, never mind that there are no 'Soviets' anymore. A piece of Cosmos 482, a rocket ...

AI is spurring ever more data satellites in space. How humanity plans to deal with the clutter is still an open question.