The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will compete for dominance in January skies. Here are the best ways to see both.

Abstract: Performance of LAPAN-A2 and LAPAN-A3 space-based Automatic Identification System (AIS) have been successfully assessed as the satellites operated at individual and two-satellites ...

Ask someone where outer space is, and they’ll probably point at the sky. It’s up, right? Simple. Except, no one really knows where “air space” ends and “outer space” begins. That might sound trivial, ...

(CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. NASA has calculated that the space rock has a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the ...

An asteroid as large as the width of an NFL football field will approach Earth in less than a decade, and the chances of it striking our planet have increased just a bit. But experts stress the event ...

Goods are shipped around the world via roads, rail, and air. Why not space, too? That’s the question posed by Inversion Space, a Los Angeles-based startup that’s developing a reentry capsule that it ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

"The fact that we don't see anything out there means that if they did exist, they vanished long ago and their signatures have decayed away." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

President Donald J. Trump transformed American space policy during his first term. He reestablished the National Space Council to coordinate national space strategy. He issued a series of important ...