Leaked documents suggest the U.S. secretly tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for 20 years using the CASSANDRA planetary defence system and advanced space surveillance.

Planet, a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and Google Cloud, Google’s suite of cloud computing services, today announced an expansion of their partnership and a new agreement, ...

An Orbital Sciences Antares rocket lifting off from Wallops, Va., to resupply the International Space Station exploded on liftoff a short time ago. The payload included the Arkyd 3, the first test ...

Workers prepare Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-6 technology demonstrator satellite for shipment at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (Planetary Resources via YouTube) Planetary Resources has ...

Some of Planetary Resources' asteroid-mining tech just passed a major space test. The Washington-based company's tiny Arkyd-6 satellite has completed all its mission goals in Earth orbit, just three ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A private spaceflight company took one small step for asteroid mining this week with the launch ...