Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space Erika Nesvold MIT Press (2023) Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration James S. J ...

From thunderstorm sprites to volcanic plumes, and city lights to meteors, the world appears a different place from 250 miles (400 kilometers) up.

T he earth is a poor archivist. The rigid tectonic plates of its outer layers are continuously in motion, sliding over one another to swallow almost all records of the past, melting them into the ...

If the United States and the former Soviet Union could cooperate on space efforts during the Cold War, then tensions between nations on Earth today don’t have to extend to diplomacy and agreements ...

T he outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them ...

Laura Barron-Lopez: Mankind's trash litters our planet from local parks to the depths of the ocean. But it's not just on Earth. Debris from everything we've launched into space since the 1950s is ...

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Space exploration is driving technological development on Earth, unlocking new ...

Rocks from space that land on Earth are known as meteorites. Giant impacts, such as the one that likely ended the reign of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, caused by an asteroid or comet ...