Space Debris

Rocket Lab's Lightning satellite bus. WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab said May 21 it won a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to design, manufacture and operate two geostationary satellites the military will use to monitor and track objects in orbit. The award marks Rocket Lab’s first satellite production…

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts experience accelerated ageing could help us fight similar effects on Earth related to sedentary lifestyles, disrupted circadian rhythms and social isolation...Read More

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end, surpassing its planned two-year mission. Installed on the exterior of the International Space Station since November 2023, AWE studied atmospheric gravity waves, which…

Over five decades ago, astronomer Frank Drake used one of Earth's largest radio antennas to beam a coded message into space, hoping that it might one day reach the eyes, ears or other inscrutable sensory organs of intelligent aliens. Slicing silently through the Milky Way at light speed, the now-famous…

An out-of-this-world weather report from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals how clouds move across a giant planet hundreds of light-years from Earth By K. R. Callaway edited by Lee Billings An artistic representation of WASP94-A b, a gas giant exoplanet nearly 700 light-years from Earth. Clouds build as air…

An artist's impression of WASP-94Ab, with magnesium silicate clouds appearing on the terminator between night and day, where it is "morning." (Image credit: Hannah Robbins/Johns Hopkins University) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a weather forecast for the exoplanet WASP-94Ab, a world with clouds of sand in the…

Stakeholders have called for stronger citizen participation, transparency, and accountability in budgeting in Kaduna. The stakeholders made the call on Wednesday in Kaduna during the Civic Space Policy Dialogue 2.0 held as part of activities commemorating the 2026 Open Government Partnership Week. The dialogue, organised by Civil Impact for Sustainable…

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest stock sales ever by taking public a space company that is currently losing billions of dollars a year. A filing shows that his SpaceX lost $2.6 billion from operations last year on $18.7 billion in revenue,…

Thirty-six years ago this month, NASA released the first images from the newly launched Hubble Space Telescope, a cluster of stars located in the Carina constellation. A side-by-side comparison with an image of the same area captured by a terrestrial telescope showcased Hubble’s bright future returning much sharper observations from…

Elon Musk’s final frontier is officially open for business now that SpaceX has formally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC. That kicks off what could be the largest initial public offering ever when it lists on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the ticker SPCX. SpaceX generated $18.67 billion in…