New Zealand is planning a national space mission which could see a small fleet of state-owned satellites launched into the skies over the Pacific nation, a minister told AFP on Wednesday. Golden ...

With satellite mega-constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink deploying thousands of spacecraft, monitoring their health has become an enormous challenge. Traditional methods can’t easily scale to handle ...

India will Monday launch the first stage of its domestic satellite navigation network which will eventually provide services both to civilians and the military and is similar to the US Global ...

From cabin fires to shuttle breakups, these five space disasters reshaped exploration forever — revealing how tragedy forced critical safety reforms and changed humanity’s journey beyond Earth.

Space is full of terrifying possibilities, but most cosmic disasters are extremely unlikely to ever reach us. Solar flares are different: they happen often, and under the right conditions, they could ...

The Bahamas first dipped a cautious toe into the modern space economy a year ago, on February 18, 2025, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster completed a controlled landing on ...

Takeshi Nikawa is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Physiology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, and chief director of the Institute ...