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Small Asteroid to Orbit Earth for Two Months Before Returning to Space
At a Glance Researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid have discovered that a small asteroid will orbit the…
Satellites are making the night sky brighter – as a launch site, NZ has a duty to combat light pollution
Wikimedia Commons/Yourong F. Wang, CC BY-SA William Grant, University of Canterbury New Zealand’s space sector has been developing…
Earth Is Surrounded by Space Trash. How Do We Get Rid of Them?
The space around Earth is increasingly cluttered with discarded rocket bodies, mission-related debris, and thousands of satellites, many…
Understanding the Scale of the Universe
Understandably, only some are tuned to the scale of the universe, as the enormity of everything inside it…
Starlink satellites are ‘leaking’ signals that interfere with our most sensitive radio telescopes
NOIRLab, CC BY Steven Tingay, Curtin University When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite…
Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?
Gail Iles, RMIT University In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended…
Voyager 2 has lost track of Earth. Only one antenna in the world can help it ‘phone home’
NASA / JPL-Caltech Glen Nagle, CSIRO In 1977, five years before ET asked to “phone home”, two robotic…
Côte d’Ivoire is launching its first satellite for Earth observation – and it’s locally made
Illustration of a view of Africa from space. Getty Images David Baratoux, Institut de recherche pour le développement…
Simulations and AI Are Now Transforming Space Debris Management in Low Earth Orbit
The growing presence of space debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) poses a significant threat to satellites and…
Astronomers Confirm the Existence of Earth’s “Quasi-Moon”
Astronomers have identified Earth’s new ancient celestial companion, asteroid 2023 FW13. This asteroid orbits the sun synchronously with…