A rare magnetic phenomenon, once thought confined to the sun’s outer atmosphere, has been seen to twist its way through Earth ...

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them are ...

The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an ...

In a 2023 white paper, a group of concerned astronomers warned against repeating Earthly “colonial practices” in outer space. But what’s wrong with colonizing space if there’s nothing there to begin ...

'There is now a Starlink reentry almost every day.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Satellite megaconstellation operators are ...

Given the mounting number of objects in orbit, this is likely to be a more regular occurrence. It’s costly in terms of damage ...

The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military and economic positions beyond the Earth. Public and private entities are ...

The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military and economic positions beyond the Earth. Public and private entities are ...

For the hot end, an aluminium mount was pressed into soil, transferring the Earth’s ambient heat to the engine’s bottom plate ...

The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military and economic positions beyond the Earth. Public and private entities are ...

Trident Technical College astronomy professor Blake Crosby has a gift for translating complex science into fascinating conversation. He kindly agreed to answer imaginative questions about cosmic myste ...