Gizmodo

Did Rocket Lab’s Suborbital Rocket Reach Orbit?

Update, June 17, 8:12 a.m. ET: After publication, Rocket Lab provided Gizmodo with the following statement: “Rocket Lab has never placed any object into orbit unintentionally.” The company did not ...
New Atlas

Spin this dial to scroll through your ebooks

I've always felt like the Kindle could do with a better way to flip ebook pages. DuRoBo might have solved exactly that problem, with a little dial on the side of its compact E Ink device. The Krono ...
Scientific American

Almost half of the objects in Earth’s orbit are junk—and that’s only the stuff we know about

Almost half the stuff in orbit around Earth can be classified as space junk, and the problem is only going to get worse as launches and orbital infrastructure increase. Using data from the U.S. Space ...
CBS News

In its third flight, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket puts satellite payload into wrong orbit

Blue Origin launched the company's third New Glenn rocket on Sunday, re-flying and successfully recovering a previously used first stage. But the rocket's second stage put the payload, a ...
The Washington Post

Artemis II is officially on its way to the moon

The Artemis II astronauts blasted out of Earth’s orbit Thursday evening and on to the next phase of their mission — a four-day journey toward the moon. The Orion spacecraft burned its engine for six ...
CNBC

From satellites to space data centers: Why low earth orbit is attracting billions in investment

From Nvidia to Elon Musk's SpaceX, Big Tech is betting big on a new layer of critical infrastructure that's emerging above our heads. Low earth orbit underpins global navigation, telecommunications, ...
New Scientist

NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time

Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time. This was achieved by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, but the effect has only now been ...
National Geographic news

In a first, NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun—by accident

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun. In 2022, NASA crashed the ...
Phys.org

Too many satellites? Earth's orbit is on track for a catastrophe—but we can stop it

On January 30, 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to 1 million satellites to power data centers in space. The proposal ...
Polygon

Mio: Memories in Orbit fixes Silksong’s difficulty problem without an easy mode

When Hollow Knight: Silksong launched in September 2025, we didn’t just get a strong Metroidvania sequel filled with adorable bugs and killer bosses. We also got another serving of gaming’s unkillable ...
Polygon

Mio: Memories in Orbit nails the art of the Metroidvania

The place where I grew up has a body. To anyone passing through on the way to Boston, it may look like every other small town in Massachusetts, but I know what’s underneath the skin. Main Street is ...
The Washington Post

Why U.S. and Chinese satellites are ‘dogfighting’ in orbit

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The American patrol satellite had the targets in its sights: two recently ...