The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits territorial claims in outer space and on celestial bodies in order to avoid disputes. But without national laws governing space settlers, a nation might ...

“It’s fun to think about space as being the Wild West with no rules. But it’s not. We do have the Outer Space Treaty,” explains Michelle Hanlon, a law professor at the University of Mississippi in the ...

Outer space is crowded, with more than eighty countries either owning or operating satellites. The types of actors are also increasingly diversifying. Space is no longer only a realm of states.

When space became the new frontier, the Outer Space Treaty was established to prohibit any country from claiming land on the Moon or any other planet. Produced by Joe Avella. Written by Jessica Orwig.

However, the Minor Planet Center, which officially names and tracks such space rocks, retracted the findings within a day and confirmed there would be no collission. The agency revealed that the ...

Space advertising is not currently a problem, but the enterprise needs to be smothered before it has a chance to grow, according to a group of concerned astronomers.