Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized our lives in myriad ways, from personalizing our social media feeds to giving us driving directions and monitoring our health. In recent years, hopes ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Earth's space junk problem isn't just growing—it's accelerating. According to the European Space Agency's latest Space Environment Report, 2024 saw some of the largest debris-generating events in ...

Rare earth elements are crucial to many technologies, and scientists say the U.S. could boost extraction from domestic reserves by as much as eight times the current level. Reading time 2 minutes How ...

In a village in rural India, a farmer checks his phone for an alert that could save his family from a flood. Thousands of kilometers away, in Barcelona, a team of engineers monitors a network of ...

For more than a decade, the Earth observation industry has insisted that commercial adoption is just around the corner. Yet adoption outside defense remains limited, uneven, and difficult to sustain.