Despite being hidden by the glare of the sun, plenty of space-based cameras are snapping photos of 3I/ATLAS that you should ...
NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...
An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications ...
Christina Guidi of The Aerospace Corporation discusses what it would take to build structures and infrastructure that could ...
Russia is pushing the boundaries of space—and capitalism—by transforming its spacecraft into high-stakes advertising ...
The study concluded that no less than 96% of all the images obtained by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) planned ARRAKIHS ...
Light pollution from the exploding number of satellites orbiting Earth is making it harder to peer into space.
Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...
Neptune, the most distant major planet in the Solar System, has finally given up one of its longest held secrets. After ...
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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 ...
Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...
Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...