In mid-December 2022, Snopes readers inquired about a peculiar and alleged piece of space junk — a manhole cover. One of those circular objects you probably barely noticed on the sidewalk is in orbit ...

Back to Northwood. At 31, Mendler is still young, but isn’t alone as a youthful founder. If the Founders Fund rings a few bells, you’re right: The San Francisco-based VC firm, with about $12 billion ...

The vacuum of space is unforgiving, and time is not on your side. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thanks to science fiction, many ...

Space should not be a garbage dump. Nevertheless, we have treated the sky as a wrecker’s yard for more than half a century, and the amount of space junk orbiting Earth has skyrocketed in recent years.

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...

If you've ever traveled somewhere that left you so enthralled that you wanted to go back over and over, then you get how Peggy Whitson feels about space. She is a seasoned astronaut who has multiple ...