LightSail 2 solar sail is still soaring above Earth more than two years after launch
[ad_1] An experimental spacecraft testing solar sails as a means of cost-effective space propulsion that could power future missions to
Read more[ad_1] An experimental spacecraft testing solar sails as a means of cost-effective space propulsion that could power future missions to
Read more[ad_1] Skywatchers across North America got a first class view of the longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years,
Read more[ad_1] Space debris created by a Russian anti-satellite missile test will pose a threat to satellites in low Earth orbit
Read more[ad_1] Concentration of glassy slabs (dark masses) at Quebrada de Chipana.P. Schultz et al. / Geology 2021 A decade ago,
Read more[ad_1] Comet 67P, which famously hosted the first-ever cometary lander in 2014, made its closest approach to Earth on Friday
Read more[ad_1] This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. John Grant,
Read more[ad_1] This past September 8 marked the 55th anniversary of the premiere for creator Gene Roddenberry’s “Star Trek,” a “Wagon
Read more[ad_1] Be grateful you weren’t in what is now Chile’s Atacama Desert 12,000 years ago. Today, a 47-mile (75 kilometers)
Read more[ad_1] This year, “Star Trek: The Original Series” popped the cork on its 55th birthday and fans will be celebrating
Read more[ad_1] The Shelton family from Texas sends flowers to mission control with each new mission. (Image credit: James Blair/NASA) For
Read more[ad_1] Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a
Read more[ad_1] A new study has confirmed a longstanding theory that the Earth’s crust was tilted on its side around 84
Read more[ad_1] Auroral activity on Earth varies over time. As the magnetic poles drift, auroras can appear at different latitudes around
Read more[ad_1] Dinosaurs attempt to flee a wildfire on Antarctica during the late Cretaceous. (Image credit: Illustration by Maurilio Oliveira; De
Read more[ad_1] While most of us have been focusing on goals related to decreasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, a subset
Read more[ad_1] WHOOOOOO is that beautiful bird? An elusive owl has been definitively photographed in the wild for the first time
Read more[ad_1] ESA’s Proba-1 minisatellite was launched into orbit two decades ago today. It remains fully operational, however, making it the
Read more[ad_1] Europe’s own satellite navigation system, Galileo, has become the world’s most precise, delivering metre-level accuracy, available anywhere on Earth.
Read more[ad_1] Agency 20/10/2021 131 views 3 likes On 21 October 2011, the first pair of Galileo navigation satellites was launched
Read more[ad_1] A total of 655 people were arrested in Washington, D.C., last week as they protested fossil fuel projects and
Read more[ad_1] According to the most widely accepted theories, the Moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago after a Mars-sized object
Read more[ad_1] Scientists have long known the fate of our solar system – and likely the fate of Earth itself.
Read more[ad_1] Squeezing flybys of eight asteroids, most in a completely unexplored region of space, into just 12 years is a
Read more[ad_1] When NASA’s most recent Mars lander trekked out to the Red Planet, it had historic company: two tiny cubesats,
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