Hundreds of fires have burned in Canada and the northwestern U.S. This visualization shows exactly how far the pollution ...

You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact ...

The next era of commercial space will reward organizations that prepare now for stricter orbital safety, governance, and ...

Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth’s upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they ...

The thermosphere extends from about 100 to 1,000 kilometers (62 to 621 miles) above Earth. More than 99 percent of the upper ...

As Earth’s orbit gets more crowded, companies are betting that cleaning up space junk could become a lucrative new business.

Google has quietly released a fix for the traffic data bug that prevented Google Maps from showing nearby conditions for users. The company did not release a new update, as the issue was corrected ...

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is estimated to hit the moon on August 5. Gregory H. Revera via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Something is about to smack into the moon—and no, it’s ...

As the number of satellites orbiting Earth continues to grow, so does the risk of crashes between these spacecraft. Such collisions could create fields of debris, potentially rendering entire areas of ...

A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been slowly falling toward Earth, on July 3, 2026. Over the coming ...

Each blue dot represents one of 16,500 active satellites. GPS navigation, banking transactions, communications, weather forecasting, emergency response systems, agriculture, aviation and national ...

In 2020, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to "purchase a unique service: the first-ever removal of an item of space debris from orbit," according to ESA.