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 ...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory discoveries announced at this week’s AAS 248 include 380 trans-Neptunian objects found in six weeks ...

If you have a favorite planet or star, you're in good company. Astronomers who devote their lives to the study of peculiar outer space objects are all too happy to gush about the ones they like best.

A newly discovered object orbiting far beyond Neptune has its closest approach to the Sun pointed in the opposite direction from every other known body like it, weakening one of the central ...

Over the past month, the Pentagon has released two tranches of files concerning “unidentified anomalous phenomenon” (formerly, UFOs — “unidentified flying objects”). The document dumps were, in large ...

The parties noted that the basis for such a document could be the draft treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space, the threat or use of force against outer space objects NEW ...

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As mentioned in Chapter 9, orbital debris is not addressed explicitly in current international law. International agreements that directly address orbital debris, however, may eventually be needed to ...