Open Cosmos has acquired Connected, a Portuguese startup dedicated to offering “pioneering” affordable, standardised internet of things (IoT) connectivity from space.

When astronomer Samantha Lawler got an email from a journalist in May 2024 saying that space junk may have landed in a farmer’s field an hour’s drive from her home in Regina, Saskatchewan, she was ...

With Space Junk on the Rise, Is a Catastrophic Event Inevitable? Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm the ...

The European Commission made a proposal Wednesday to clean up Europe's space sector while also reducing its footprint and making sure its satellites are better protected from hackers.

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead formed inside a colossal black hole.

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

When Astroscale Holdings Inc. began trading in Tokyo a year ago, excitement over the Japanese space-debris pioneer was riding so high that the stock surged 62%, making it a billion-dollar company.

This waltz is the unofficial soundtrack of floating through space. Soon it will beam through the cosmos Science May 30, 2025 2:10 PM EDT ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

Space junk also travels at slower speeds than shooting stars and meteorites, entering Earth’s atmosphere at roughly 8km/s rather than tens of kilometres per second.

Scientists are studying how sensors designed to detect nuclear tests could help track space junk and meteorites crashing down in the world's most remote regions. Across the world, dozens of ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.