Sunspots are cooler areas on the sun's surface that appear darker compared to their surroundings. These solar blemishes are ...

You've probably heard of the dark web, but what's actually on it? These 5 tips can help you explore the dark web using Tails, Tor, and a VPN, assuming you actually want to go see.

Elon Musk told employees at xAI that the company needed a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult ...

With more and more internet satellites launching every year, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the rising risk of collisions. The CRASH Clock is a new predictor of how much time ...

In a newly filed FCC application, Musk’s SpaceX outlines plans to launch a data center constellation of up to 1 million satellites. Reading time 3 minutes Orbital data centers are the latest big tech ...

Low-Earth orbit is more crowded—and fragile—than it looks. Satellites constantly weave past each other, burning fuel and making dozens of evasive maneuvers every year just to stay safe. A major solar ...

If flying to the Moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific would have ventured more than 40 metres from the beach. That is about ...

If you thought humanity already had its hands full with climate change, think again. With satellites and space junk increasingly cluttering our planet’s low Earth orbit, a team of scientists warn that ...

Yikes! The race to fill Earth's orbit with satellites has reached a point where a single misstep could trigger a chain reaction. At 550 kilometers above the planet – a region now dominated by SpaceX's ...

Powerful solar activity released by the sun reached Earth Monday, causing colorful auroral displays and GPS issues for aircraft, according to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration.

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in ...