The White House is reviving the National Space Council, a historically influential policy body that could help guide the administration’s ambitious space goals, while acting as a counterbalance ...

NBA player Anthony Edwards and Olympic sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson drank Sprite in the Coca-Cola brand’s most recent “Obey Your Thirst” ads, and the star athletes are not alone: Sprite has now ...

A space career field for enlisted soldiers is coming to the Army as the U.S. builds up its space-based capabilities. The Army is planning for about 900 40D space operations specialists who would ...

Space Force already has at least one ‘Space Ranger’ and several “Space Cowboys” who’ve completed an infamous “spur ride” with 1st Infantry Division cavalry scouts. But now the newest ...

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly.

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 ...

The Space Force's new framework describes how the service, which was created just five years ago, thinks about warfighting in space. (Alex Brandon/AP) The Space Force has been upping its rhetoric ...

If you’ve ever admired the stunning blue petals of the butterfly Pea flower, you’ll be happy to know that this vibrant bloom is more than just a pretty sight. Packed with antioxidants and ...

It's one of only a few times an astronaut has filmed or photographed sprites from space. The ISS was passing over South America when Pettit captured the footage. It's unclear whether Pettit was ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The head of U.S. Space Command is calling for weapons to be deployed in space, the most explicit call yet for offensive space capabilities. “It's time that we can ...

This essentially means that if there is some rapidly developing threat in space—say an adversary takes out a key national defense satellite—the military would like the capability to rapidly ...

Jed Mccaleb, the sole funder of Vast, is ready to sink $1 billion into the company’s commercial space station dreams, according to Bloomberg. “There’s not that many folks that are willing to ...