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Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program came to an end on Monday (Jan. 19) when an ...

Today, science can narrow down potential oil reserves with surprising accuracy — especially when it comes to shale oil, found ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

Earth's orbit is getting dangerously crowded with space debris, raising the risk of satellite collisions and global ...

Astronauts appear to undergo rapid but temporary biological changes during spaceflight, with some markers linked to ageing ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...

NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on ...

SpaceX 's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Sunday. The rocket lifted off ...

China has filed applications to reserve orbital slots for nearly 200,000 satellites, prompting international concern about ...