Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought ... The VIR spectrometer was provided by the Italian Space Agency ASI. More information: R. Sarkar et al, Ceres: Organic‐Rich ...

Liftoff occurred at 5:05 p.m. ET. SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast today (Jan. 27). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink spacecraft ...

One tech company operating in outer space saw its share price rise more than 90% over the past year through Jan. 22. That company is Planet Labs (NYSE: PL), which delivers satellite data about the ...

Obtrusive space advertising is defined in U.S. federal law as “advertising in outer space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the surface of the Earth without the aid of a ...

On the way to Mars, companies think we might like to spend a night or two in outer space, and several are floating concepts for ‘space hotels’. Above: Space Development (previously called ...

Middle Tennessee-native Barry Wilmore’s return to Earth from the International Space Station has been pushed back again, but the delay did give the astronaut a unique photo opportunity.

In fact, AST was the very first company in the world to "phone home" from space. Now it's looking to ... it's enough to stream 1080p high-definition video. Skip forward yet another year and ...

"Our GhostRiders captured the beauty of our home planet during another Earth orbit burn." Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday released satellite images of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, showing the scale of the world’s largest religious gathering, ...

They originate in space, high above a planet’s equator, and they loosely follow the path of its magnetic field. Earth, Jupiter and Saturn are all known to host chorus waves, but now, in a paper ...

"We have launched more satellites in the past six years than we had in the previous 60," astrophysicist and co-director of the Outer Space Institute Aaron Boley said in his 2024 Dan MacLennan ...

A decade ago humanity launched around 200 objects into space per year. Now we launch more than 2,600, with no prospects for slowing down. This rapid expansion of human activity in outer space has ...