Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385…
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Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. Formed from the collapsed cores of supergiant stars,…
In late April, farmers in Saskatchewan stumbled upon spacecraft fragments while preparing their fields for seeding. It sounds like the beginning of…
If space systems such as GPS were hacked and knocked offline, much of the world would instantly be returned to the…
Only about 600 people have ever travelled to space. The vast majority of astronauts over the past six decades have been…
Humans can’t help being fascinated by space. And that interest seems to be making the possibility of moving humanity to…
The US military recently launched a groundbreaking initiative to strengthen ties with the commercial space industry. The aim is to integrate…
For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world – and indeed…
The NASA-led Artemis-3 mission will place the first human boots on the surface of the Moon since Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison…
Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit around Earth over the next…