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With Space Junk on the Rise, Is a Catastrophic Event Inevitable?
Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...
This Satellite Died in 1967. For Some Reason, It Just Spoke to Us Again.
Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...
Regtechtimes on MSN4h
‘One crash away from disaster’—France steps up as space junk threatens global networks
In recent years, outer space has started to resemble a crowded highway during rush hour. According to the European Space ...
Front Page Detectives on MSN58m
Mystery Behind the Uncanny Strength of a 2023 Solar Storm Solved by Scientists
Mystery Behind the Uncanny Strength of a 2023 Solar Storm Solved by Scientists In April 2023, Earth was hit by a surprisingly ...
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Cause of mysterious pulse coming from space finally revealed by scientists after a year of investigating
The study went on to note that a cause for the pulse could have been that it was struck by a small piece of space rock, known ...
‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Could Hit The Moon, Sending ‘Bullet-Like’ Meteors Careening Towards Earth
NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...
NASA missions help explain and predict severity of solar storms
An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
Astronomers Detected a Mysterious Radio Burst. It Turned Out to Be From a Dead NASA Satellite
After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...
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Fireball Passes Over Southeastern United States
People in Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas reported sightings of a fireball overhead on Thursday afternoon, 26 June. It ...
NASA confirms meteor streaked across Southeast sky, allegedly crashing through a house
The National Weather Service said fireballs were spotted across the Southeast, including Charleston, South Carolina, a day ...
The Inevitable Militarisation Of Space?
Aside from the U.S. Air Force’s anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test in 1985 and the abandoned Star Wars program, treaties like the Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963), the Outer Space Treaty (1967), and ...