A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

Slingshot Aerospace has been chosen by the Air Force's technology acceleration arm to support a program for identifying and tracking various objects in space. The company specializes in artificial ...

Space is full of debris, asteroids, and icy wanderers doing their thing, but every so often, something starts heading a little too close for comfort. While most of it burns up or misses us entirely, ...

When an object in space appears to be racing at nineteen times the speed of sound, it instantly jumps from routine data point to global headline. The claim that NASA tracked such a hyperfast visitor ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Wayne N White Jr consults with One Space Technologies ...

Illustration of congestion in geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 U.S. military officials are scrambling to upgrade decades-old systems that track objects in space — a ...

Scientists are studying how sensors designed to detect nuclear tests could help track space junk and meteorites crashing down in the world's most remote regions. Across the world, dozens of ...

Wayne N White Jr consults with One Space Technologies Inc. He is a member and former Director of The National Space Society and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. Private citizens and companies may one day ...

In recent years, the space industry has experienced unprecedented explosive growth, with the number of satellite launches increasing exponentially. By the end of 2023, the number of global operational ...