Russia’s Bureau 1440 space company launched 16 broadband Internet satellites, marking an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network that Russian officials have cast as a domestic version of ...
Humans did not evolve for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as by ...
When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...
EXCLUSIVE: TriStar Pictures has preemptively acquired The Last Orbit, a forthcoming book from New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich, inking a deal for Matt Shakman (The Fantastic Four: First ...
Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time. This was achieved by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, but the effect has only now been ...
A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun. In 2022, NASA crashed the ...
Carolyn Hax can’t get to every question she receives, so each week we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit their advice. Out of the many great responses we receive, we select a few ...
Astroscale’s Provisioner refueling vehicle was tested last year at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The purple piece is the OrbitFab GRIP interface. Credit: Astroscale U.S. WASHINGTON — As it plans ...
On January 30, 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to 1 million satellites to power data centers in space. The proposal ...
MIO: Memories in Orbit is influenced by the platforming challenges of Hollow Knight. By Christopher Byrd A few hours into MIO: Memories in Orbit, I wanted to bail. I didn’t think I had it in me to go ...
The largest-ever communications satellite of its kind took a major step toward operation Tuesday: operator AST SpaceMobile announced the record-breaking spacecraft, whimsically called BlueBird 6, has ...
With more and more internet satellites launching every year, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the rising risk of collisions. The CRASH Clock is a new predictor of how much time ...