According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...

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Tens of thousands of pieces of space debris are hurtling around Earth right now. These defunct satellites, spent rocket ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

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SPACe, Starlink will deliver combined data capacity of 600 gigabytes/second, helping amp up internet access particularly in ...

While thinking of space as one big rubbish tip isn’t nice, one perk of all this cosmic filth is meteor showers, which light ...

The UK has launched a £75.6 million bid to build a spaceship to clear space debris, including satellites. Officials say the major new procurement process will tackle the growing threat of defunct ...

When astronomer Samantha Lawler got an email from a journalist in May 2024 saying that space junk may have landed in a farmer ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted TWA 7b, a Saturn-sized exoplanet around a nearby star ...

For Amazon, Project Kuiper is a long-term, high-stakes bet on India’s satellite broadband future. While competitors like Starlink and OneWeb have an early lead, Amazon’s deep pockets and strategic ...

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...