Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...

When we think of asteroids, we think of the big one that changed the Earth's climate, and killed off the dinosaurs. But the ...

Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's equatorial bulge. This bulge makes points near the equator farther from the ...

Earth’s highest peak isn’t the point that reaches closest to outer space, and the reason has nothing to do with Everest at ...

UW–Madison researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way that rover tests are evaluated on Earth, using computer simulation.

In a 2023 white paper, a group of concerned astronomers warned against repeating Earthly “colonial practices” in outer space. But what’s wrong with colonizing space if there’s nothing there to begin ...

The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military and economic positions beyond the Earth. Public and private entities are ...