Cyber-attacks in the Baltic raise difficult questions about the threat of state-sponsored information warfare.
Almost three weeks after the successful test of a Chinese anti-satellite weapon, the US military has catalogued more than 500 pieces of debris created by the destruction of the obsolete weather satellite Watchdog groups are keeping a keen eye on the space junk, and are using data from the military to learn more about the weapon's capabilities.
New research suggests that regular orbital oscillations known as the Milankovitch Cycles, can affect the climate on Earth so drastically as to cause entire species to go extinct.
A growing body of financiers, lawyers and space enthusiasts believe that the recognition of personal property rights 'out there' is the only realistic way to finance the new frontier of commercially driven space exploration.
Is it possible to make a cable for a space elevator out of carbon nanotubes? Not anytime soon, if ever, says Nicola Pugno of the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Pugno's calculations show that inevitable defects in the nanotubes mean that such a cable simply wouldn't be strong enough.
One of the world's most powerful supercomputers has conjured a fleeting moment in the life of a virus. The researchers say the simulation is the first to capture a whole biological organism in such intricate molecular detail.
A pair of NASA astronauts has unveiled a design for an innovative space tug that could one day save the world by nudging a potentially threating asteroid out of the Earth's path.
New research demonstrates that sensor networks in remote locations could be powered by using wind power.
Meliodosis, an orphaned tropical disease, is getting new attention and funding because of its potential as a biological weapon.
Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed cannot exist.