Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects drifting, spinning, and hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood, some of them ...

NASA will launch the Roman Space Telescope this September—8 months early—to map 12% of the sky and probe cosmic mysteries ...

On Earth, people grip objects to ensure they don't fall. In space, this process changes: When astronauts hold an object ...

Astronomers have identified a mysterious deep-space object that appears to defy current scientific understanding, prompting renewed debate about how the universe forms and evolves over time. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never ...

A large chunk of burning detritus discovered in the Pilbara desert of Western Australia appears to be space junk that reentered Earth's atmosphere, the Western Australia Police Force has announced.

Just in May of this year, the Soviets struck a ground target from orbit. Never mind that they didn't intend to; in fact, never mind that there are no 'Soviets' anymore. A piece of Cosmos 482, a rocket ...

What started as a relatively simple project for the Caltech Planet Finder Academy — a program that allows students to work on and experience real-world astronomy challenges — Matteo Paz began ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Mysterious interstellar ...

A morose mammoth, a lispy sloth, and a sleek sabre-toothed tiger trudge across the weary landscape with their motley mammalian crew. While an obsessive squirrel desperately collects and protects ...

AI is spurring ever more data satellites in space. How humanity plans to deal with the clutter is still an open question.