Industrial Light and Magic has delivered one of the coolest holiday treats with an animated gingerbread re-creation of the iconic “Destroying the Death Star” sequence from Star Wars IV: A New Hope .

Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Make sure your Android phone is up to date on the OS front. Keeping it up to date will make it snappier and install the latest security protocols. You can go to Settings > General > System Update to ...

Learn about the mission profile about United's Launch Alliance - the 2nd certification flight of the Vulcan rocket. Credit: ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

Lesley Masters is affiliated with Visiting Fellow Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Loughborough London. Visiting International Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa ...

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour. The objects, which range from inactive satellites to fragments of equipment ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" We have launched all manner of satellite and machinery into low-Earth orbit. But what goes up must come down. Most often, these items burn up in the ...

Plus: China appears to be expanding its nuclear testing facilities This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...