Daniel Apai is a professor of astronomy, planetary sciences and optical science at the University of Arizona. He receives funding from NASA. Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very ...

Earth-orbiting satellites could begin colliding with one another in less than three days in a worst-case-scenario scenario — potentially triggering a runaway cascade that may render low Earth orbit ...

The space station industry is starting to take off. For decades, if you wanted to send an astronaut or experiment into orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) was the only option. But now, as ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - Starlink will begin a reconfiguration of its satellite constellation by lowering all of its satellites orbiting at around 550 km (342 miles) to 480 km over the course of 2026, ...

Artificial intelligence increasingly requires so much space and power that we may run out of both on Earth. As a solution, tech companies are looking to do business in space by creating celestial data ...

The intelligence findings are alarming, but some space security experts aren’t convinced Russia would take such a misguided risk. Reading time 3 minutes Of the more than 14,000 active satellites in ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

How many exoplanets orbit two stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists announced the discovery of a new exoplanet ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...