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 ...

As artificial intelligence wipes out jobs and compounds the environmental issues faced on Earth, tech billionaires have been touting what they see as the jobs of the future: working in space. "In 2035 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...