The safety concern continues to increase into 2026 as researchers at the University of British Columbia predicted in a study ...

The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics figured out, space reveals something so bizarre it rewrites the rulebook. These ...

Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only the essentials: tools, seeds and clothing. Anything else would have to come ...

Some 22,500 miles above Earth, a spacecraft filled with thruster fuel will gas up two orbiting Space Force assets. The high-altitude endeavor, undertaken by the orbital servicing enterprise Astroscale ...

In the vast vacuum of space, Earth-bound limitations no longer apply. And that’s exactly where UF engineering associate professor Victoria Miller, Ph.D., and her students are pushing the boundaries of ...

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine, ...

On a special episode (first released on April 3, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: What happens when today’s treasure – satellites that give us access to broadband internet and accurate weather forecasts ...

Sven Bilén is a co-owner of X-Hab 3D, Inc. which received NASA STTR funding to develop lunar construction technologies and develops 3D concrete printing systems. He receives funding from NASA, DARPA, ...