This week, the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) and NASA coordinated for the first time to avoid a collision in what ...
A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a ...
When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the ...
Engineers and scientists are actively preparing strategies to prevent asteroid 2024 YR4 from colliding with the moon.
Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...
The two telescopes operate synchronously: Izaña-2 fires laser pulses at a piece of space debris high overhead, and Izaña-1 detects the reflected light. In doing so, the system is able to track the ...
Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measure these events and use them to understand the cosmos. Now University of Copenhagen researchers and ...
The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...
Japan has a remarkable idea for disposing of space junk and debris without the need to ever come into contact with it, which ...
Recent advancements in asteroid research, particularly through the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, have unlocked ...