NASA’s Lucy Mission Gets Ready to Fly by the Trojan Asteroids
The spacecraft will provide the first up-close look at these building blocks of the early solar system.
Polio Is Nearly Wiped Out—Unless Some Lab Tech Screws Up
The world is close to declaring the total containment of polio, but several labs could still, accidentally, be storing samples of the deadly virus.
Two Satellites Almost Crashed. Here’s How They Dodged It
Close encounters of the orbiting kind are getting so common, the Air Force’s alerts are starting to look like junk mail.
Now You Can Join the Search for Killer Asteroids
A Hawaii observatory just put the largest astronomical data trove ever online, making it free and accessible so anyone can hunt for new cosmic phenomena.
The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
Everything you need to know about SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and more.
Space Billboards Are Just the Latest Orbital Stunt
A company that wants to slap logos on the night sky is raising tricky questions about what belongs in space.
A Strange Kind of Data Tracks the Weather—and Pirate Ships
Weather forecasters may soon use a technique called radio occultation, which infers the state of the atmosphere from various broadcasts.
To Clean Up Space Junk, Some People Grabbed a Net and Harpoon
The latest efforts to corral space debris employ a wide-ranging bag of tricks including orbital fishing gear, tiny thrusters, and "space feathers."
How SpaceX Launched 64 Satellites Into Orbit on a Falcon 9
Go behind the scenes with Spaceflight Industries, the space travel agency of sorts that coordinated a jam-packed Falcon 9 flight earlier this week.
How SpaceX Launched 64 Satellites Into Orbit on a Falcon 9
Go behind the scenes with Spaceflight Industries, the space travel agency of sorts that coordinated a jam-packed Falcon 9 flight earlier this week.