The Assembly then took up the report, “Prevention of an arms race in outer space” (document A/77/383), containing four draft resolutions and a draft decision.

The United Nations, through its Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), is enhancing its long-standing cooperation with Member States and driving partnerships with the broader space sector to ...

Commentators and scholars have suggested the United Nations close this loophole by developing an international agreement on intellectual property protection in Outer Space.

A number of groups and individuals say there's a need to protect lunar history before it's too late.

Astronauts placed six different American flags on the moon during the Apollo program. What became of those flags in the years since, and why were they controversial?

The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space.

The United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty of 1967 forbade countries from establishing territory on the moon, and some people were concerned that raising a flag would look like Americans were ...

The U.S. and Japan are jointly sponsoring a United Nations Security Council resolution urging nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space.

In 1967, the Outer Space Treaty went into effect. As of January 2025, 115 countries are party to this treaty, including the United States and most nations that have a space program.

LOWELL -- From outer space to the Lowell Public Library, with a short stop at NASA along the way. That's the yearlong trip a United States flag donated to the library by astronaut Col. Jerry Ross ...