Starlink already dims its spacecraft in visible light by tipping solar panels away from Sun reflections. A similar hardware tweak, better shielding around onboard avionics, could muffle stray radio ...

The system, known as 2M1510, is one of the strangest ever found. 2M1510. It was discovered by an international science team led by Thomas A. Baycroft, a Ph.D. student in astronomy ...

The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on ...

US space leadership is at risk without urgent action on launch emissions, orbital debris, and space sustainability. With the recent social media feud between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

China appears on the verge of carrying out a historic satellite-to-satellite refuelling mission in high orbit, a potential advance that has prompted the US to deploy two military surveillance ...

Space debris dynamics and orbital evolution represent a critical area of research that addresses both the natural progression and the anthropogenic influences on the population of objects orbiting ...

Space debris and sustainability: Challenges and opportunities for satcom industry "On one hand, the growing number of satellites and space objects complicates the space environment, raising ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

Space & Spaceflight Failed Orbital Mission Loses Human Remains, Space Pot Unconventional payloads aboard an Exploration Company capsule were lost at sea when it crashed into the ocean on Tuesday.

In April 2023, a Russian satellite appeared to be closely trailing a classified U.S. military satellite, and Russia’s Kosmos 2558, launched in August 2022, was deployed into the same orbital ...