In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Max Haot, CEO of Vast, the ambitious aerospace company based ...

The International Space Station (ISS) travels around Earth at an incredibly fast speed of about 28,000 kilometers per hour. Because of this speed, it goes all the way around the planet in just about ...

The Chinese weather satellite Fengyun 1C was deliberately destroyed by China in an anti-satellite weapon test in 2007 and peppered low-Earth orbit with an estimated 3,000 pieces of shrapnel. In 2012, ...

The military relies on an aging system to track an ever-increasing amount of material orbiting Earth, making it imperative that it develops a network to avoid collisions that could take out satellites ...

The ESA is trying to raise awareness of the Earth's alarming lack of preparation for the worst possible solar events.

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...