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The Astronomical Problem of Space Junk

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...
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Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...
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Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...
Roberto Piazza, a professor of Condensed Matter Physics, said in a press release that studying these materials in ...