A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit
An American spy satellite unexpectedly shattered into pieces, creating a cloud of debris in low-Earth orbit. The U.S.…
46,590 tracked objects, another 1.2 million we can’t see: The mess humans have created in space
A piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slammed into the Moon on August 5 after drifting through…
NASA tests first-of-its-kind spacecraft that navigates without GPS
NASA’s Starling mission has demonstrated a first-of-its-kind navigation system that lets a spacecraft determine its position in orbit…
Errant SpaceX rocket stage set to smash into the moon at 5,400 mph, seven times the speed of sound — NASA a…
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Astronomers Found a Hidden Swarm of Space Junk Threatening Earth’s Most Valuable Orbit
Earth’s geosynchronous orbit (GEO) holds some of the most valuable satellites that carry out tasks for phones, television,…
Australia probes mystery space balls that washed up on beach
The authorities in Australia are investigating the origins of mysterious large spheres that washed up on a beach…
China’s Shenzhou 21 astronauts return to Earth after being briefly ‘stranded’, wrapping up record-breaking mission (video)
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Part Of A SpaceX Rocket Will Be Hitting The Moon At Mach 7, According To Experts
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to impact the Moon at over seven…
Meet China’s moon porter for Chang’e-8 mission: a 4-wheeled robot with 2 arms
China is sending a new kind of explorer to the moon – with a humanoid upper body and…
Satellites pass within 3 metres of each other
Astronomers have observed two Russian military satellites passing within 3 metres (10 feet) of each other in an…
Chilling space crisis threatens the world as satellite swarm
When it all begins, we’ll be five days and 12 hours from disaster. But that unstoppable calamity would…
Scientists Warn Low Earth Orbit Could Suddenly Collapse
A new study suggests that modern satellite networks may be far more fragile than they appear, with the…