Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
How sounds from humanity were transmitted into outer space as a message. The College Football Playoff committee 'really ...
Why is NASA so worried about space microbes? How much damage could an extra-terrestrial microorganism do here on Earth? And ...
A national research team led by University of Alberta space physicist Ian Mann is developing a Canadian satellite mission ...
China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...
Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out ...
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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 ...
One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...
Though it generated beautiful auroras around the world, the Gannon solar storm in 2024 was also a little dangerous.
Roberto Piazza, a professor of Condensed Matter Physics, said in a press release that studying these materials in ...
Windswept isolation, inhospitality to humans, and piracy have historically kept this place one of the planet's truly wild and ...
Common moss spores survived nine months bolted to the outside of the International Space Station, paving the way toward space colonization.