‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...
Greenhouse Emissions Threaten The Future of Low Earth Orbit, Scientists Warn
The current state of Earth's climate has no recorded precedent. The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic ...
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Stuck NASA astronauts returning to Earth on SpaceX capsule: What to know
The mission, under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, aimed to develop private spacecraft for transporting astronauts to and from the station. By outsourcing low-Earth orbit missions, NASA has ...
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns to Earth After Mission
NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov land in a SpaceX Dragon ...
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How does a long stay in space affect astronauts' minds and bodies?
Sleep disturbances and the inability to get regular sleep to allow their brains to rest will have led to cumulative fatigue – ...
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Space Force's Secret Plane Returns After More Than a Year in Orbit
The X-37B is a reusable robotic space plane operated by the US Space Force. It resembles a miniature space shuttle at just ...
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Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth. Soon it will mess up its orbit
This escalating congestion in low Earth orbit poses significant challenges ... created thousands of pieces of space junk. And Nasa measurements are showing the reduction of drag, so scientists ...
NASA just lost yet another one of its low-cost planetary missions
Since the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft launched in late February as a rideshare spacecraft along with a Falcon 9 launch, NASA has been providing a series of increasingly worrisome updates about the ...