Latest articles by Tereza Pultarova
2023 was another eventful year for our planet, delivering broken climate records, unprecedented weather disasters and worrisome studies.
Steve Wozniak's space sustainability start-up Privateer launched a prototype of its Pono space module to encourage users to share 'stuff' in space.
Western Europe's first vertical spaceport receives a launch license, paving the way for the continent's debut rocket flight next year.
The world's most accurate space-based thermometer has suffered a mission-critical anomaly only two months after the release of its first images.
Scientists are building a 'beyond state-of-the-art' digital model of near-Earth space to improve forecasting of solar storms and their effects on infrastructure.
Trying to avoid satellite collisions in orbit increases the risk of future collisions in the aftermath of each avoidance maneuver, researchers have round.
Weird effects of space junk collisions could help researchers detect dangerous, hard-to-see orbital clutter.
Tech giant Rolls-Royce unveiled a mockup lunar nuclear reactor at the U.K. Space Conference in Belfast last month.
For the first time since its discovery, scientists have found stars within the Magellanic Stream, a mighty river of hydrogen gas emanating from two small galaxies in the outskirts of the Milky Way.
The James Webb Space Telescope has found water and organic carbon molecules in the vicinity of a massive, active young star.
The world's first satellite capable of detecting industrial sources of carbon emissions from space has just reached orbit — and it promises to be a game-changer.
Scientists have detected the presence of air pollutants from burning space junk in the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere.
Blinking streetlights could protect astronomy from the damaging effects of light pollution.
The first images from a new Earth-observing satellite reveal in unprecedented detail how temperature changes on the planet's surface.
A U.K. startup is preparing to send a satellite to space that will manufacture new semiconductor materials that could be used in electronic devices on Earth.
A collision between two ancient icy moons that may have once orbited Saturn could have given rise to the planet's iconic ring system, a new study reveals.
Asteroid Bennu is the space rock with the highest known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200 years. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will help us protect ourselves.
The Indian Space Research Organization began attempts to wake the Chandrayaan-3 moon lander and rover from hibernation after the two-week frosty lunar night.
Sir Brian May and NASA's OSIRIS-REx chief scientist Dante Lauretta challenge Space.com readers to photograph solar system objects to win a signed copy of their new book about asteroid Bennu.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission taught astronomers how little they know about space rocks. They might be only a few hundreds of feet wide, but their geology appears surprisingly complex.
The European Very Large Telescope in Chile has photographed a planet orbiting a star in a multi-star system that sits some 480 light-years from Earth.
When the OSIRIS-REx probe arrived at asteroid Bennu, it found a body that looked and behaved quite differently from what scientists had expected.
Satellites observe Hurricane Lee swirl above the Atlantic Ocean as it makes its way toward the Canadian coast for a Saturday landfall.
