"I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about." ...

The room is always cold. That’s what you notice before you notice the servers. The white floor. The rows of cabinets. The violence of the fans. Cooling lines disappearing behind panels. LED lights ...

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 56,913 miles, according to the European Space Agency — equivalent to about one quarter of the ...

Hakeem Oluseyi, a science educator and physicist, charted his “unlikely journey from the street to the stars” in his memoir, “A Quantum Life” (2021). He brings the same relatable style to “Why Do We ...

Almost half the stuff in orbit around Earth can be classified as space junk, and the problem is only going to get worse as launches and orbital infrastructure increase. Using data from the U.S. Space ...

We often hear about the number of objects that are whizzing around our planet, but it’s rare that we actually get to see the situation for ourselves. NASA released a decent visualization a couple of ...

Satellite collisions in orbit could trigger a catastrophic global chain reaction, potentially halting space exploration, destroying GPS and raising risks for Maryland’s aerospace sector, which ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may have emerged to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect setting. The following is an excerpt from “Why Do We Exist?: The Nine ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

Earth’s orbit is “on track for a catastrophe.” That was the rather alarming prediction of the authors of a recent piece published in The Conversation. As the argument goes, orbit is filling up fast, ...