Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those launches weren't registered internationally? While more and more orbital objects ...
In December 2024, Buddhist monks from Japan attempted unsuccessfully to send a small temple on board a satellite into orbit.
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When St. Louis native Nikki Alexander was a student at Harvard Law School, she made a discovery that fueled her passion project. “I had never heard of space law before,” Alexander said. She was ...
The United Nations’ General Assembly, the U.N.’s main deliberative body, starts its 80th session in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Among those who will closely follow the session’s deliberations on ...
New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...
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NASA's ambitious mission to return astronauts to the moon for the first time this century is on track to launch no later than April 2026, but it just might fly sooner if all goes well. Final tests of ...
Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, commander of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, speaking at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Ala., discussed new initiatives to grow the Army's ...
Just when we thought the action from Germany’s Munich Motor Show was winding down, Hyundai goes and drops what could be the car of the show. And the word is the Concept Three will morph into a fully ...
The Space Force appears to be embracing its inner Johnny Rico with a possible name change of one of its commands. The service is considering changing Space Operations Command’s name to Combat Forces ...
One of the most important satellite launches of all time was that of Sputnik. When the Soviet satellite became the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth on October 4, 1957, space must have seemed ...