Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race to be the first to send various objects up there. But why?

A Chinese aerospace company, Geovis Insighter Technology Co. Ltd., is preparing to launch an ambitious space situational awareness (SSA) network designed to monitor orbital traffic and debris in low ...

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...

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A giant supermassive black hole (SMBH) that consumes the mass of the Sun a day has been found to be about one-fifteenth of its initially estimated size, which makes its rate of feeding even more ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

Another concern is pollution to Earth and the ozone layer.

Humanity is looking up – and beyond. This Saturday, World Space Week lifts off, inviting the world to imagine what life might look like beyond planet Earth.

Simulations indicate that objects currently undetectable due to their position may collide with the planet within a few thousand years. Observation will only be possible with specific space missions.