While the Outer Space Treaty (OST) provides vital foundations for tackling this global issue, the principles it first laid out in 1967 need to be further refined to produce rules that we can apply in ...

Li Song, China's permanent representative to the UN and other international organizations in Vienna, speaks at the opening ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

China's space exploration achievements extend far beyond lunar missions. It made history with its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, ...

Telling the time on the Moon is more complicated than you might think, but answering the question is becoming more important ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.

At the 68th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in Vienna, Morocco called for deeper international and regional cooperation to ensure space technologies benefit ...

Telling the time on the Moon is more complicated than you might think, but answering the question is becoming more important ...

On that fateful day, an asteroid detonated above the remote Siberian wilderness in Russia, unleashing a force equivalent to 185 atomic bombs dropped on Japan's Hiroshima. The blast leveled ...

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) works to promote international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of space, and in the utilisation of space science and ...

Morocco was unanimously elected to preside over the 68th session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of ...