New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared New models from recent ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Starlink already dims its spacecraft in visible light by tipping solar panels away from Sun reflections. A similar hardware tweak, better shielding around onboard avionics, could muffle stray radio ...

Here, among the arid desert sands of Las Cruces, Sierra Space wanted to see in real-time how its proprietary space station skin handles direct impacts from micrometeoroids and orbital debris (MMOD).

Six astronauts circle the earth aboard the International Space Station. How do they feel and what do they see in the course of one earth day? This is the premise of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, which ...

The amount of debris in orbit around Earth is increasing rapidly. The European Space Agency (ESA) there are more than 40,000 pieces larger than 10cm in orbit, and more than 130,000,000 smaller ...

A private Japanese company has taken the world's first close-up photo of an individual piece of space debris, by parking another satellite next to it in orbit. This orbital photo op is the first ...

That’s because the life spans of orbital debris vary depending on altitude. Below 200 kilometers, it may only last a few days, whereas those at 1,000 km can last up to a thousand years.

With the increase in satellite launches, a new crisis has arisen for spacefaring nations: space debris. ISRO’s recent mission tackled this, leaving ‘zero orbital debris.’ ...

After a six-month stay, the crew landed safely in the Gobi Desert in June. The orbital module that carried them to space continued to orbit Earth, moving closer and closer to its destruction.