A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s ...

The Trump Administration recently issued a new Executive Order titled "Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the ...

On paper, the USSF is dedicated to defending U.S. interests in space. More specifically, the USSF is charged with protecting ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

A NASA official has warned that if there is an unplanned deorbit of the ISS, the risk to the public from debris will increase ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...

The company now plans to extend into on-orbit servicing and refueling missions, end-of-mission disposal, and cross-orbit ...

Every April, one of the oldest-known meteor showers returns to the night sky. The Lyrid meteor shower is a favorite celestial event for its signature bursts of activity. According to NASA, the Lyrid ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ...