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Learn why space junk is so dangerous, and what's being done to detect the nearly-undetectable. 🛰️💥 By Dan Smith Published : Nov. 26, 2024 at 11:27 AM EST ...
Newly-released photos capture the sun in highest resolution ever, space agency says The Solar Orbiter, which launched in February 2020, imaged the sun's surface from less than 46 million miles ...
NASA reported that the Sun had a coronal mass ejection, or CME, that blasted a large mass of solar debris from the center of the system, with some debris hitting Earth.
After seeing Elon Musk send thousands upon thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit, it’s only natural to wonder, why can’t we launch all our junk into space, too?
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
Outside you shouldn't be able to see anything other than the sun's reflection on certain surfaces. Space. Heads up: Check your eclipse glasses before next month's solar eclipse.
Rocky debris caused by a NASA mission could create the first human-made meteor shower. In Sept. 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) intentionally collided with a tiny moonlet ...
In mid-December 2022, Snopes readers inquired about a peculiar and alleged piece of space junk — a manhole cover. One of those circular objects you probably barely noticed on the sidewalk is in ...
When the reflective surface of the alien space junk lines up with the Sun from ... In order to separate between possible false point-like sources on photographic plates from real reflections, ...
Learn why space junk is so dangerous, and what's being done to detect the nearly-undetectable. ... and you can look up just at the reflection of sunlight to detect 10-centimeter-sized debris. ...