Scientists Followed 75 Meteorites and Mapped the Asteroid Belt’s Violent Origins
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
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Scientists Say This 1 Thing Can Make Flying More Dangerous—With 'Catastrophic' Consequences
While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space ...
NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Opens Up to the Hidden Universe
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has officially begun its journey of cosmic exploration after successfully ejecting its dust ...
Astronauts return aboard SpaceX Dragon after nine-month saga in space
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore splashed down safely Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico after an ...
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What happens if someone dies in space as 'stranded' NASA astronauts' return to earth sparks major questions
After Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned earlier this week, many of us have been asking what happens to a dead body ...
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A Powerhouse of Global Satellite Infrastructure: Norway?
The country supports some of the world’s most important satellites. But experts worry about its proximity to Russia.
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SpaceX Starship Explosions Impacted Nearly 500 Flights, Cost Carriers Millions
All told, the rocket breakups in January and earlier this month caused 414 departure delays for aircraft at airports across Florida and the Caribbean and 80 diversions or ...
Laws governing space are 50 years old. New ones are needed to prevent it becoming a ‘wild west’
Private companies are now major players in space. How can they be held accountable if they damage the property of others or ...
Williams and Wilmore Are Not the First Astronauts to Be Delayed in Space
From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...
The long path home for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...
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How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse
"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...
‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...