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The Earth faces significant contamination issues, not only on its surface but also in space with an accumulation of space debris. Astrodude explores the reasons behind this problem.
Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.
NASA has released new images from the Parker Solar Probe, which passed within 3.8 million miles of the sun last year.
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun ...
Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...
Thousands of solar tornadoes swirl above the sun’s surface at any given moment. These remarkable photos give us a glimpse at these stunning cosmic phenomena.
Every now and then, a piece of Mars comes crashing down on Earth, but in 2023, an exceptionally large Martian meteorite fell out of the sky and landed in Niger. This chunk, the largest meteorite from ...
The existing and planned satellites for quantum communication orbit the earth at an altitude of around 600 km. By exchanging ...
From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...
Scientists have been studying an interstellar object that's currently moving through our solar system which was first spotted on 1 July. It has been called 3I/ATLAS because of what spotted it, and ...
This is a scientifically and historically thrilling find for both the Museum and the larger Denver community,” said Dr. James ...