People think of space as vast and empty, but the near-Earth environment is starting to get crowded. As many as 100 lunar missions are planned over the next decade by governments and private ...

Bacteria typically found in or on the body arrive in space with their human hosts, but the array of free-living microbes found on Earth—in soil and water—is lacking. NASA'S STUCK ASTRONAUTS ...

One of the cleanest places beyond Earth ... Space Station (ISS) have had rashes, allergies and the odd infection, and scientists now believe the station's environment is too clean.

After more than half a century of space activity ... is going to have to clean-up.” “This is why we’re going to make this tool and give it to the people of Earth for free.” ...

Space offers a variety of clean and abundant sources of power, but how can we get them down to Earth? And which are safe and economical? ‘1923' Star Aminah Nieves On Her Character's Fate In ...

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 ... of ESA's Clean Space Office ...

In other words, there is a lot more potential debris being added to orbit — at a time when there's already too much junk orbiting Earth as it is. Space debris doesn’t stick around forever ...

One would think that astronauts’ living quarters in space need to be perfectly sterilized, but it turns out that creating a "dirtier" environment with more microbes from Earth may boost their health.

The most efficient solar cell ever made can convert almost half of the sunlight that reaches it into electricity. If widely available, such a powerful cell – with double the efficiency of the ...

Steve Stich, manager of NASA Commercial Crew Program, said they adjusted the timeline to Tuesday to align with better weather for a "really clean ... to Earth. As Starliner approached the space ...

Walt Handelsman leads this week’s editorial cartoon gallery with an aide breaking ... Nick Anderson draws Trump’s live online interview with Space X founder Elon Musk as a failure to launch.