Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
Shark explores what Minecraft would look like in outer space. This matters because it expands the game’s imaginative ...
Experiences of sleep and dreaming while living in outer space. Car bomb kills 5 people, including 3 officers, in front of ...
The vision of mining space for resources is no longer science fiction. The moon's proximity to Earth and the presence of ...
UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.
Christina Guidi of The Aerospace Corporation discusses what it would take to build structures and infrastructure that could ...
China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...
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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 ...
For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...
Explore India's strategic opportunities in nuclear power in earth orbit and on the moon amid evolving energy needs.
Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out a way to deal with it.
Kids in the '70s loved this snack that was originally developed for astronauts. The quick energy-boosting treat also helped ...