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Earth’s orbit is getting crowded, and scientists are warning that space may soon become too risky to manage safely. A new study published in Acta Astronautica takes on a question that could define the ...

Astronomers and wildlife experts are up in arms over an unprecedented approach to maximizing solar energy generation.

An Nvidia H100 GPU has been packed into an upcoming satellite from Starcloud, which is one of the companies working to make data centers in space a reality.

A pair of newly discovered comets are making a rare double display in the night sky this week. SWAN and Lemmon, both of which were discovered this year, have reached their closest points to Earth in ...

The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia's Pilbara region when ...

A Flagstaff-based space company has won a $30 million contract to raise the orbit of a space-based NASA observatory next year ...

The Earth now has another moon to tag along during its orbit around the Sun. Astronomers found out that the Earth has two ...