Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

On the International Space Station, a cube holding a diamond-based sensor revealed the potential for quantum magnetometers.

A 67-foot airplane-sized asteroid named 2026 KF will fly close to Earth on May 22, 2026. Scientists are closely tracking the ...

Particle detector Calculations suggest that millicharged dark matter could be detected by observing its interaction with ...

Nearly half of all known objects currently orbiting Earth technically classify as space junk, but the true amount may be even ...

Solar emissions exert 'drag' on space junk orbiting Earth. From historical measurements across a period of 36 years, researchers have now shown that space junk begins to fall down much faster once the ...

Space technology on Earth has gone from futuristic to foundational in our everyday lives. From satellite innovations that enable global communication to space science applications improving ...

Scientists are using a new technique to study incoming space debris and its effects on Earth's atmosphere.

Earth and Space Science Informatics brings together data-intensive methods, computational platforms and domain expertise to analyse, visualise and model phenomena ranging from planetary interiors and ...

Stupid question, but …” is a weekly column answering the not-so-stupid questions that, at this point, we’re all too afraid to ask. The column encourages readers to become unabashedly curious about the ...

Satellites forced to avoid space debris appear to have lost some of their data due to the movement. They've also lost ...