More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris…
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Elon Musk’s space tech company SpaceX is rapidly advancing towards its goal of establishing Starlink – a massive satellite network…
When it comes to rocket science, you really want your safety systems to work but testing them is something you…
A glowing blob known as “the cocoon”, which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the…
Space is a hostile, extreme environment. It’s only a matter of time before ordinary people are exposed to this environment,…
Our Sun has a rather lonely existence in the Milky Way galaxy. It sits on its own, four light years…
Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun?…
Nothing lasts forever, including the stars in our night sky. One of the brighter and more notable stars in our…
Astronomers at Western Sydney University have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky. Spanning more than…
Imagine two towns on two opposite sides of a mountain. People from these towns would probably have to travel all…