Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those ...

If we can't get along on Earth, how will we ever get along in space, right? Experts told DW there are reasons to be ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

Jeff Bezos, one of the world's richest men, has made a similar prognostication, with his spaceflight company Blue Origin ...

Astronomers using NASA's space-based Kepler Telescope may be close to finding the first Earth-like planets in outer space, potentially capable of supporting life. Such a discovery could change the ...

Analyses of their constituent zircons could well provide valuable supporting evidence that Earth’s continents owe their existence to bodies from outer space.

Outer space has emerged as the world's next battlefield, demonstrated by recent cyberattacks on satellites blamed on Russia.

If the United States and the former Soviet Union could cooperate on space efforts during the Cold War, then tensions between nations on Earth today don’t have to extend to diplomacy and agreements ...