Pentagon is closely monitoring Russia and China test military capabilities in space
US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a ...
Starliner crew are finally returning to Earth. How their bodies lasted 10 months in space
Here's how astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams physically managed to last 10 month at the International Space Station.
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Starlink satellite part hit a Canadian farm when it fell from orbit
A failed launch left a batch of Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit last year, and it appears that a fragment of one fell ...
3D printing will help space pioneers make homes, tools and other stuff they need to colonize the Moon and Mars
3D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment. They ...
Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
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Experts from Russia, US, China sent initiative to UN to clean up space debris
Valentin Uvarov, one of the partners of the Three Country Trusted Broker international non-profit organisation, Director of the Research ...
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Tom Gauld on the correct way to refer to space junk
Other cartoons by Tom Gauld can be found here. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to ...
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Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse.
All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. New research, published in Nature Sustainability on ...
Climate change could affect Earth's orbit and litter space with 'millions of pieces of junk'
Scientists have warned that greenhouse gas emissions will result in less space junk being burned up – and more debris ...
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PolyU scholar’s innovative R&D to reduce hypervelocity impact risk from space debris, supported by Innovation and Technology Fund
Hypervelocity impacts from space debris pose significant risks to spacecraft and satellites in outer space. To address this ...
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth: Is ozone layer at risk?
Low Earth Orbit satellites that re-enter the atmosphere could cost us dearly. Here’s how Starlink and other satellites slowly damage the ozone layer.
Another SpaceX test flight ends in flames, with debris grounding planes
This was Starship’s eighth flight test and follows a failed flight in January. The spacecraft is essential to Elon Musk’s ...