Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out a way to deal with it.

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.

Earth has a single natural satellite—our Moon. But tens of thousands of artificial satellites have been sent into orbit. And most of them remain, revolving around Earth at various altitudes. Nearly ...

Digestive gas gets the best of everyone sooner or later, often in the form of a burp. Burping is how the body clears excess gas from the upper digestive tract, which would otherwise result in ...

As humans prepare for longer missions to the moon and Mars, scientists are trying to understand how space affects the human body. One of the biggest concerns is space radiation — high-energy particles ...

Life on board the International Space Station takes some getting used to. Being weightless affects everything from the way food tastes to getting a good night's sleep. Here's what it's like to spend ...

At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound is not reflected as it gets absorbed. But the quietness of these chambers always got me thinking of how ...

Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From ...

Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...

The roots of material science in space began in the mid-20th century during the dawn of the space race. Image Credit: Indometeus/Wikimedia Commons To begin with, rockets, space shuttles, and ...

Jeff Bezos has already sent people to space in his Blue Origin rockets, now he’s working out a way they could live there. The Amazon founder is dead set on making his ultimate science fiction dreams ...

Scientists with the AstroCup project have now reported that menstrual cups, flexible, silicone-based devices used on Earth to collect menstrual blood, can withstand launch-like vibrations and pressure ...