After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of ...

A new proposal suggests borrowing the "Conference of the Parties" model from climate diplomacy to update space law before ...

Officials from Russia and Iran blasted Elon Musk’s Starlink at a Monday United Nations meeting held by the Committee on the ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

The criticism at the meeting of the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space shows how Starlink is upending geopolitics as usual.

US officials say they hope the talks spur greater transparency from China in particular about satellite operations.

Explore the challenges of international patent law in regulating innovation amid a permanent human presence in outer space.

A trip to outer space can wreak havoc on the human body. Muscles atrophy, bones become porous and immune systems degrade in low gravity. These effects, as frightening as they may sound, tend to be ...

Jack Nelson is one researcher out of a “generous handful” of Canadian academics seeking to tame the final frontier.

When most people think science fiction, they first think of outer space. It’s why names like Kubrick, Lucas, Cameron, and Scott will live on long after the men who made them famous are gone. For the ...