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The former NASA film liaison will help produce zero-gravity films, TV and web content to be shot in outer space by Space 11 ...
Happily, 2024 was a banner year for stargazers, headlined by a full solar eclipse and with a supporting cast that included spectacular aurorae at both poles, a comet bright enough to see with the ...
Space junk – any of the millions of pounds of objects left by humans in space ranging from small nuts and bolts to pieces of defunct satellites – falls into Earth's atmosphere every day.
Researchers have discovered that the turbulence found in the thermosphere -- known as the gateway to space -- and turbulence in the troposphere, here closer to sea level, follow the same physical ...
Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space weather.
With multiple countries and private companies planning missions to the moon, experts say cislunar space — the area of space between Earth and the moon — could become strategically important.
A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth after more than eight months in orbit – the latest development in a ...
As humans prepare to live in space someday, ethics should be as much of guide as science and technology, an astrophysicist argues in a new book.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams returned to Earth after an unexpected 286-day space mission.
Unlike proposals to build solar power stations in space and transmit energy down to earth, all the generation would still happen down here. Crucially, these reflectors could help solar farms ...