The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will in a matter of days come as close to our planet ...

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other ...

In the worldview of the Aztecs, who lived in Central Mexico from the 14th to 16th centuries, the history of the world was a ...

Once thought to be the debris of a destroyed planet, the asteroid belt is now understood as a region shaped by gravity, collisions and the powerful influence of Jupiter. Studying it helps scientists ...

The Moon Holds Way More Water Than Previously Imagined Space experts have discovered something incredible about lunar water distribution that challenges everything we thought we knew. According to a ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

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Satellite communications used to be the domain of weather forecasters, cable providers, and aerospace engineers. That changed when Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites came along—and when Elon Musk ...

Putting AI in space may sound like a sci-fi nightmare, but Google is thinking about the idea with a research endeavor called Project Suncatcher. The idea is to put power-hungry data centers into orbit ...

As global demand for computing continues to explode, the carbon footprint of data centers is a growing concern. A new study outlines how hosting these facilities in space could help slash the sector’s ...