US Space Force aims to deploy maneuverable spacecraft, not as isolated units but housed within a central "mothership" capable ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

After Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned earlier this week, many of us have been asking what happens to a dead body ...

Headquartered in Long Beach, California, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron small orbital ... debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and communications. Rocket Lab's ...

Why SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Arianespace made Fast Company's list of the most innovative companies doing work in space.

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Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...

Nearly half of the artificial satellites in orbit carry a payload. Often, these are in the form of sensors for observation, systems like GPS, and other scientific instruments. A small portion, about ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Friday, March 14, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on NASA's SpaceX ... become the 22nd orbital rocket ...

In 1995, NASA issued the first comprehensive set of orbital debris mitigation guidelines. Two years, later the U.S. government used these guidelines to develop the Orbital Debris Mitigation ...