Right above you is the sky – or as scientists would call it, the atmosphere. It extends about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the Earth. Floating around the atmosphere is a mixture of molecules – tiny ...

Private companies are offering many opportunities to make the leap off Earth, ranging from a quick suborbital hop to a multi month stay on the International Space Station (ISS). But the advent of the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What is beyond outer space? – Siah, age 11, ...

For more than a decade, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has been searching the sky for near-Earth objects. Using its infrared vision, the spacecraft, ...

Super-Short Summary: Astronaut William Anders, who died last week, captured the famous “Earthrise” photo during Apollo 8. The photo hung in the Oval Office for awhile but was removed in 1970 as public ...

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Bright Ascension Ltd., a Scottish industry-leading space software technology provider, is pleased to confirm that another three of its flight software deployments were launched onboard the SpaceX ...

The ELSA-M space junk collector will keep Earth's orbits free from dead satellites. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Space ...

Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple IT WAS a speech that changed the way we think of ...