A near-miss earlier this year between NASA's TIMED spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 satellite was even closer ... Purple may be key to finding planets capable of hosting alien life, study ...

By comparing state-of-the-art X-ray measurements from the XRISM satellite with numerical simulations, they showed this is evidence for collisions between galaxy clusters, causing gas inside to ...

The International Space Station and many low-Earth orbit satellites circle the planet ... term satellite carrying capacity in mind. In fact, satellite operators regularly perform collision ...

Their binary nature and abundance in certain regions of space, such as the Orion Nebula, suggest an origin different from that of traditional stars or planets. Simulations show that these objects ...

Risks range from minor collisions reducing ... to power the device. Between the two extremes are impacts with critical components which can disable a satellite. When you consider the reliance ...

It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets, including one last giant impact that threw enough rock, gas, and dust into space to form the ...

captured by their host planet at the end of its formation. In this paper, researchers propose that these small irregular moons likely originated early in Saturn’s history from multiple independent ...

until a space station discovers a fiery unknown planet heading for a collision to destroy all humanity!" Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.

NOAA's Office of Space Commerce is tasked with helping to manage commercial and military satellite traffic in space to help guard against collisions ... and coordination between private space ...