Meet NASA's Artemis Closeout Crew, tasked with securing astronauts in their spacecraft

For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the ...
Wired

In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up

If you watch sci-fi movies, you’d think that flying a spaceship is just like driving a slightly more complicated car (or a Winnebago in Spaceballs). And George Lucas gave us those galactic battles ...
Kerrang!

Album review: Orbit Culture – Death Above Life

Over the course of the past decade, Orbit Culture have been steadily carving their name into metal. In 2025, they've stood up, hulkingly tall, and smashed an imprint of themselves everywhere they go.
ExtremeTech

What Is Low Earth Orbit, and What Goes There?

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...
ruralsprout

The Best Way to Water Raised Beds (& it’s Hands-free)

Back in the late 90s there was a diaper commercial that said, “Live and learn, and get new Brand of Diapers.” This is how it is with watering raised beds. There’s an idea of how it’s going to be, and ...
Car and Driver

Buick Electra Orbit Looks like a Concept Car from the 1950s

The Buick Electra Orbit is a concept car from GM's advanced design studio in China, and takes inspiration from GM's Motorama dream cars from the 1950s. The Electra Orbit has a streamlined shape, ...
USA Today

Earth's orbit may be in trouble. Why space debris is to blame.

You might think space as a vast emptiness. But according to the European Space Agency, it's getting incredibly crowded – at least around our planet. A European Space Agency report released April 1 ...
New Atlas

Over 6,600 tons of space junk are floating around in Earth's orbit

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report ...
The New York Times

SpaceX Puts Humans in Orbit Over Earth’s Poles for the First Time

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight. By Qasim Nauman and ...
The Aviationist

First In-orbit Photo Taken By Secretive Boeing X-37B Spacecraft Officially Released

The photo, taken during the X-37B’s seventh mission, shows Earth from High-Elliptical Orbit. On Feb. 20, 2025, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs uploaded on the DVIDS website, what is ...
GeekWire

Lumen Orbit, a Seattle-area startup that wants to put data centers in space, raises $11M

Lumen Orbit’s co-founders are, from left, CEO Philip Johnston, chief technology officer Ezra Feilden and chief engineer Adi Oltean. (Lumen Orbit Photo) Bellevue, Wash.-based Lumen Orbit, a startup ...