Pulsating stars. Supernova explosions. Streaking asteroids. Far-off galaxies. Humankind recently saw the first stunning images of outer space taken by the world’s largest digital camera – and Florida ...

The planetary nebula is located 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco. Amateur astrophotographer Emil Andronic has captured a striking image of the Cat's Eye Nebula from his home in ...

Space is where billionaires dream. Jeff Bezos thinks that we will soon move heavy industry and most humans off-planet onto massive revolving space stations, allowing the Earth to return to a pristine ...

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are brief pulses of extremely high-energy radio waves, known ...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article by Samantha Potter J.D. ’25, an officer in the U.S. Air Force, are entirely her own and not endorsed by, or reflective of, the position of the U.S.

Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used. “Mars is a failed Earth.” It is common enough to hear such ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...

Michelle L.D. Hanlon is affiliated with For All Moonkind, a not-for-profit organization committed to protecting human cultural heritage in outer space starting with the Apollo lunar landing sites.

Introductory remarks / Christian Brünner -- Fascination from the beginning of mankind / Alexander Soucek -- Reasons for space activities : some thoughts / Alexander Soucek -- A short chronology of ...