A groundbreaking discovery was recently made about the largest comet ever observed hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud in the outer reaches of our solar system. Astronomers recently got a ...

The two Proba-3 spacecraft will build on the historic first to simulate and study a total solar eclipse. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Robots flying around in space seem more like fiction than reality, but recently NASA has been testing their free-flying robots called Smart SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, ...

Space debris is becoming an overwhelming problem. Between 2019 and 2023, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites made more than 50,000 collision avoidance maneuvers in low Earth orbit (LEO). In LEO, objects fly ...

You might not expect there to be much risk of collisions out in the infinite void of space, but at least within Earth's orbit, there's a veritable gravel pit of loose debris flying around at ...