Space junk is a huge problem for space agencies and a serious danger to future space missions. Researchers have now invented a new way to detect and track space junk in realtime during >>
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A bunch of space junk just lit up the skies over Australia
A massive fireball appeared in the skies above Australia on Thursday night, prompting many witnesses to believe they were witnessing a meteorite entering Earth’s atmosphere. After a closer look by experts, the object >>
This space harpoon might finally be the answer to all the junk floating around Earth
NASA and other space agencies around the world have accomplished some seriously amazing things in space, but there’s been a big price to pay for those adventures, and not just financially. The space >>
A big chunk of space junk came crashing down in California, and it’s just been identified
When a farmer in Hanford, California took a casual stroll out to his walnut orchard recently, the last thing he expected to find was a piece of space junk. But that’s precisely what >>
When we finally find aliens, we might find their garbage first
Searching for extraterrestrial civilizations isn’t easy or we’d probably have already found a few. Traveling to other star systems in search of aliens would obviously be the most convenient way of meeting E.T. >>
There’s so much junk floating in Earth orbit that the ISS just added a debris sensor
When you look up at the night sky all you see is stars and maybe a distant planet or two, but there’s actually a whole lot of garbage floating around in Earth’s orbit. >>
