It is expected that wood would last longer in space without water or oxygen as it would not decay. The wooden satellite will ...
The innovative LignoSat, the first satellite made of wood, is now orbiting Earth. Launched as part of a five-CubeSat mission, ...
UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...
On December 31, 2024, in a remote village called Mukuku in Makueni County, Kenya, residents woke up to the discovery of a ...
It is still not clear what exactly fell onto a Kenyan village last month, but such events are likely to become increasingly ...
When space debris approached the International Space Station (ISS) last November, seven astronauts had to act quickly. A ...
A large metallic ring suspected to be debris from space crashed in southern Kenya’s Mukuku village on Monday, the country’s ...
Earth is constantly bombarded by space debris, from the tons of cosmic dust that lands on the planet daily to rare, huge, dinosaur-killing asteroids that arrive from deep space every tens of millions ...
The increasing amount of debris has heightened fears about the "Kessler syndrome". Named after an American astrophysicist ...
A mysterious metallic object weighing approximately 1,100 pounds and measuring 8 feet in diameter fell from the sky into ...
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A metal fragment believed to have come from a rocket has returned to Earth, falling in an African country last week. The ...