More than 12,000 satellites are in low-Earth orbit, with space companies planning to launch tens of thousands more that ...

For decades, space has served as humanity’s most demanding testing laboratory, where only the most resilient technologies survive the vacuum, radiation and temperature extremes beyond Earth’s ...

M odern life provides enough for us to worry about without having to add space junk to that list. Unfortunately, it is becoming more and more of a concern, certainly to our civilization's use of space ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

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Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys. Images of Punch dragging around the toy bigger than him ...

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.