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3 big hunks of space junk crash to Earth every day — and it's only going to get worse
Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...
Global concern: Elon Musk's satellites are falling and endangering us
Scientists urge tech solutions to curb falling satellites' impact—causing storms, crop risks, ozone damage, and higher ...
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Nasa’s oldest astronaut Don Pettit turns 70 while falling to Earth at 17,500 mph: Watch
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan ...
Here’s how a satellite ended up as a ghostly apparition on Google Earth
There's something else that now appears on Google Earth. Zoom in over rural North Texas, and you'll find a satellite. It ...
NASA's oldest astronaut returning to Earth after ISS mission
NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from the International Space Station Saturday, alongside his two Russian ...
'Over 1.2 million pieces...': Earth's orbit turns into graveyard with 6,000 tonnes of junk, ESA warns of urgent cleanup
Even if all space launches were halted today, the threat wouldn’t stop. Existing debris continues to collide and fragment ...