A health scare prompted the first ever early return from the International Space Station for a medical reason. Does it change ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., is trying to understand how much small debris is orbiting earth as ...

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Artist rendering of the X-37B conducting an aerobraking maneuver using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere. (Boeing Space) Ten months into its latest and largely classified mission, the Space Force’s X-37B ...

Google's giving some Workspace Intelligence this week, as it detailed the agentic AI future for users during Cloud Next 2026. Workspace Intelligence is integrated into every app, understanding what ...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling ...

From household robots to reusable rockets, a new wave of breakthrough inventions is redefining what humans can do in space and on Earth. These advances are not isolated gadgets, they are tightly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

It’s no question that we have begun polluting the space around Earth. While governments around the world have participated in cataloging and tracking the largest orbiting hazards, astronomers have ...

Mold can survive the harshest of environments, so to stop harmful spores from growing on future space stations, a new study suggests a novel way to prevent its spread. Researchers created a predictive ...

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