From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

AT&T and SpaceX were both spectral beneficiaries of EchoStar’s recent exit from the commercial cellular space, but the CEO of ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

Much of the exciting action is space is confined to thin boundaries. The Universe is filled with plasma, a charged gas consisting of ions and electrons. Thin sheets with currents separate large plasma ...

Almost every image that will be taken by future space observatories in low-Earth orbit could be tainted due to light contamination from satellites. That is according to a new analysis from researchers ...

Like-charged objects were found to clump together while opposites repelled because of the newly discovered "electrosolvation force." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. What does it take to launch into space? Other ...

The discovery could hold the key to the origin of supermassive black holes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The hungriest known ...

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...

One of the most awkward parts of writing a book is that, eventually, authors have to ask people for “blurbs” – the endorsements that you see on the cover of a book, encouraging you to buy it. I am now ...