After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

A new proposal suggests borrowing the "Conference of the Parties" model from climate diplomacy to update space law before ...

When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of ...

Astrophysicist John Horack sees an intimate connection between humans and the galaxy. Few things unite humans across geography, religion and politics more than the need for clean air, water and food — ...

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...

NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with ...

Solar cells face significant challenges when deployed in outer space, where extremes in the environment decrease the efficiency and longevity they enjoy back on Earth. University of Toledo physicists ...

SpaceX has submitted a daring proposal to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a constellation of up to ...