Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

During a meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) held on Thursday, members of a NASA safety panel stated that there are growing risks threatening the space station as it nears the end of ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall to Earth every day, a new report reveals. Some experts think it's a ...

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean enough to ...

Nasa is offering a $3 million reward to anyone who can develop a solution for dealing with dozens of bags of human waste left on the moon more than 50 years ago. Through its LunaRecycle Challenge, the ...

It warns that some orbits are becoming cramped and calls for the removal of space debris. As the number of satellites increases, so does the amount of space debris in orbit, writes the ESA in its ...

Cruz opened the hearing by stating his priorities for NASA clearly and explicitly: He is most focused on ensuring the United States does not cede any of its preeminence to China in space ...

A billionaire named Jared Isaacman is poised to become the next head of NASA, where he would oversee a space agency on the cusp of pivotal crewed missions in the years ahead to the moon and Mars.

And he pushed back on some senators' concerns that he was too cozy with SpaceX, one of NASA’s major contractors and the company that took him to space, and its controversial founder Elon Musk. “ ...