Outer space has officially lost its status as a weapons-free zone. Ever since satellite technology transformed modern navigation, communications, and military reconnaissance, defense experts have ...

Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those launches weren't registered internationally? While more and more orbital objects ...

In the 1960s, as the world watched the "Space Race" , global leaders realised the vacuum of space could easily become a new arena for war to prevent this, the Outer Space Treaty (OST) was signed in ...

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 ...

Outer space has emerged as a theatre for geopolitical competition and a canvas for cultural storytelling. As nations and private entities extend their reach beyond Earth, strategic interests in ...

World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more militarized, a new study shows. World leaders should look to existing ...

Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial bodies. But if we don’t enact governing laws in the meantime, space settlers may face legal chaos. Many ...

(via PBS Space Time) Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space? No joke. The biochemistry that defined the coding system of your ...