Google’s proposed data center in orbit will face issues with space debris in an already crowded orbit

Google’s Project Suncatcher would need sophisticated collision avoidance capabilities to navigate a junk-filled landscape.
Scientific American

Satellites Swarming Low-Earth Orbit Threaten Space Telescopes

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Giant Mirrors in Space Could Bring Sunlight After Dark, One Startup Says—and Astronomers Are Concerned

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...
Morning Overview on MSN

During a spacewalk, a cosmonaut tosses old hardware into orbit

During a recent spacewalk outside the International Space Station, a Russian cosmonaut casually flung a piece of obsolete ...
Green Matters on MSN

NASA Spots a Mysterious Object Racing 1 Million Miles per Hour — And It May Be Exiting the Milky Way

Another possibility is that CWISE got a “kick” from a black hole system that launched it right out of a globular star cluster and propelled it towards the center of the Milky Way. In conversation with ...
Space.com on MSN

NASA's next-gen Roman Space Telescope is fully built. Could it launch earlier than expected?

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...
Washington Examiner

Peer-reviewed studies suggest UFOs photographed in orbit prior to Space Age

Two newly released peer-reviewed studies suggest that unidentified flying objects may have inadvertently been telescope-photographed in Earth’s orbit prior to the development of satellites and space ...
Space.com

Hubble Space Telescope spots rogue planet with a little help from Einstein: 'It was a lucky break'

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by ...
USA Today

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is latest to get a look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...
CNN

Image reveals unprecedented view of the third interstellar object observed passing through our solar system

A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system. The Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field Camera 3 got an incredible view of the comet ...
BGR

What Happened To NASA's Kepler Space Telescope?

Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...