"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" We have launched all manner of satellite and machinery into low-Earth orbit. But what goes up must come down. Most often, these items burn up in the ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

Over the past few years, tech leaders have increasingly advocated for space-based AI infrastructure as a way to address the power requirements of data centers. In space, sunshine—which solar panels ...

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...

Space Forge has turned a long‑running thought experiment into hardware, generating plasma in low Earth orbit to begin manufacturing semiconductor materials in space. By firing up a compact furnace on ...