Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...

Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those launches weren't registered internationally? While more and more orbital objects ...

Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial bodies. But if we don’t enact governing laws in the meantime, space settlers may face legal chaos. Many ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Wayne N White Jr consults with One Space Technologies ...

If you have a favorite planet or star, you're in good company. Astronomers who devote their lives to the study of peculiar outer space objects are all too happy to gush about the ones they like best.

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery at the outer edge of our solar system—a strange space rock that dances in perfect rhythm with Neptune. The object, named 2020 VN40, is part of a group ...

The outer reaches of our Solar System continue to reveal a complex dynamical environment where the interplay of gravitational forces shapes the orbits of a myriad of distant bodies. Research in this ...

As mentioned in Chapter 9, orbital debris is not addressed explicitly in current international law. International agreements that directly address orbital debris, however, may eventually be needed to ...

Evidence suggests a tiny outer Solar System body has a thin atmosphere, surprising for its size and raising questions future observations may answer. In the cold reaches of the outer Solar System lie ...

Astronomers have discovered a thin atmosphere around a small celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time, ...