Space

Concern over problems such as collisions and light pollution have been increasing among government agencies, astronomers and others as the number of launched and proposed low-Earth orbit satellites surges.

A group of environmental organizations have filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly "failing to fully analyze and mitigate the environmental harms” from a SpaceX launch program.

Corey Jaskolski is the founder and CEO of Synthetaic, and he has dubbed his ChatGPT-esque satellite image scanning tool Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, or RAIC.

SpaceX got the OK from the Federal Aviation Administration and will try its luck sending what would be the most powerful rocket to ever blast off from Earth on a suborbital test flight today.

With a new public awareness campaign there and a new group of supportive backers, an organization based in Maine is trying to turn that state into the next hub for the so-called New Space industry.

Plus the sharp rise in IoT cyber attacks in 2022, a new milestone for driverless car company Cruise and the going rate for a first-generation iPhone new in the package.

The fledgling rocket company had been spun off British billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism firm, Virgin Galactic, to take advantage of the burgeoning small-satellite launch market.

Other companies are hoping to do the same, and a few are already doing so, but Starlink and Amazon are the major players in what some experts are calling a “head-to-head rivalry.”

British aerospace and defense company Rolls-Royce has received funding from the UK Space Agency to develop a nuclear reactor for space, which could be used to support a future base on the moon for astronauts.

The company aims to design containers for the future that the Defense Department envisions using on rockets to deliver military and medical supplies anywhere in the world at unprecedented speeds.

After a successful test fire this month, SpaceX is set to fly its massive Starship and Super Heavy rocket, and is waiting on the Federal Aviation Administration for the green light, according to one company official.

A team of scientists at UCLA is looking for a very specific type of signal that can’t be generated by any source in the known universe. And they’d like you to help them find it.

An initiative for bringing girls into science, technology, engineering and mathematics is nearly tripling the size of its youth ambassador program this year, hoping to inspire interest in space-related studies and careers.

SpaceX ignited a record 31 rocket engines from South Texas all on Thursday, moving the company one more step closer to launching its behemoth Super Heavy rocket for the first time.

B3K, a workforce development initiative between aerospace companies and Kern County schools and colleges, will share data to inform schools when positions become available and what skills or certifications they require.

Plus, Intel's deepfake detector works with 96 percent accuracy, Bob Dylan "signs" copies of his latest book with an autopen and robots learn to catch themselves when they fall.

The crew members, who are healthy and not in any danger, will stay on the station for several additional months because the Russian Soyuz capsule that carried them into space was damaged by a micrometeoroid.

NASA’s budget, part of a $1.7 trillion government spending bill that still needs to be voted on by Congress, is 5.6 percent more than last year's budget. It falls short of the $26 billion requested by the White House.