Space Debris

A false-color image of the United Kingdom acquired by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-3A satellite. Credit: ESA TAMPA, Fla. — A long-awaited cap on liability for U.K. launch operators came into force Feb. 18, aiming to make the country’s fledgling rocket sector more competitive as it struggles to get off…

The first Zhuque-3 on the pad at Jiuquan ahead of a debut launch attempt in December 2025. Credit: Landspace HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch firm Landspace is targeting Q2 for a second orbital launch and booster recovery attempt and aiming for a reuse test in Q4. The attempt follows Landspace’s…

Artist's illustration of an electromagnetic mass driver launching a payload from the surface of the moon. (Image credit: General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems) Last week, SpaceX founder Elon Musk advised workers at the newly acquired company xAI that he wants to set up a factory on the moon to build artificial…

“We’re out of airspace now. We can do whatever we want,” Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen tells me from the pilot’s seat of his Aston Martin helicopter. As we fly over suburbs outside Melbourne, Australia, it’s becoming clear that doing whatever he wants is Thorbjornsen’s MO.  Upper-middle-class homes give way to vineyards, and…

By Amofin Beulah Adeoye The ballot box possesses no mechanism for interpreting frustration; it computes only participation. In the quiet, hollowed-out spaces of tired societies, a dangerous misunderstanding persists—a whisper that stepping back from the threshold of the polling booth is a form of protest, a dignified refusal to validate…

For many NFL players, being released as a cap casualty would be the lowest point of their career. That doesn't appear to be the case for now former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, though. The Dolphins released Hill on Monday in an effort to clear cap space. He was…

The Miami Dolphins are releasing wide receiver Tyreek Hill as part of a series of cost-cutting moves.  ESPN's Adam Schefter tweeted Monday that Hill's release will save the Dolphins $22.8M in cap space. He will become an unrestricted free agent when the new league year opens on March 11 at…

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Demographic, economic and federal policy trends are supporting a market shift to outpatient medical buildings and away from hospitals in the U.S., according to healthcare real estate specialists.   For the U.S. population, “we are in the midst of…

Happy Lunar New Year 2026! China's Shenzhou 21 crew rang in the Year of the Horse with an impressive celebration aboard the nation's Tiangong Space Station this week. The three astronauts (or "taikonauts," a term that borrows from the Mandarin word for space, (太空), or "taikong") celebrated with a special…

The Milky Way shines over the Very Large Telescope in Chile. (Image credit: A. Trigo/ESO) The European Southern Observatory has released a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way shining over the Paranal Observatory in Chile, as lasers create artificial "guide stars" in the pristinely dark sky above. What is it?…