Old rocket parts and decommissioned satellites are whizzing around in low Earth orbit, where they risk colliding with the ...

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The 6mm hole was discovered accidentally in footage from an onboard camera. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A tiny puncture ...

Firing a gun in space plays out very differently from that on Earth due to some bizarre physics. Here's everything that occurs when you pull the trigger.

Firing a gun in space, free from Earth's atmosphere and gravity, would result in the bullet and firer traveling indefinitely ...

The area surrounding Earth, once a vast and empty expanse, has become increasingly congested with human-made objects. From ...

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Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...

Space weather is real, and it has more of an impact on life on Earth than you may think. A new multi-pronged mission intends ...

In the pursuit of space exploration, humans have broken records that were previously thought impossible. At the same time, terrible accidents have marred the history of space flight, making later ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...