India's LVM3-M5 rocket left behind an upper stage after its satellite launch last year. Nearly nine months later, that stage ...

Our rocky planet sister?

Operating a million or more data centers in space would mean a massive increase in air pollution from rocket launches and concentrations of toxic ash from reentering satellites.

Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth’s upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of ...

In a major milestone in the search for life on other planets, astronomers have detected, for the first time, an atmosphere ...

Low Earth orbit is getting crowded, and it's not just about the satellites and debris everyone can picture. Even hundreds of miles up, in air so thin ...

Scientists made a first-of-its-kind discovery: key ingredients for life detected on a habitable-zone planet, upending ...

Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But ...

The search for life beyond Earth has marked a new discovery — evidence of an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet beyond our Solar System with modelling suggesting it may be a water world.

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