The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth ... "When they re-enter, they break apart and they do not demise entirely in the atmosphere," Boley said. When those objects re-enter Earth's ...

Atmospheric and space sciences researchers at Michigan Technological University work in the largest laboratory there is: the universe itself. Applying physical laws and engineering principles to the ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! In recent years, the number of satellites orbiting Earth and that of subsequent atmospheric re-entries has ...

With HiT&MiS deployed in Sweden, physics Ph.D. student Charmi Patel '24 will use it to monitor the northern lights, as seen ...

They might not be as homey as we'd like—the James Webb Space Telescope ... rapid change in the background magnetic field can impart significant heat to TRAPPIST-1e's atmosphere.

Feb. 5, 2025 — There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a recent study. While the chance of ...

A flooded street in Santa Barbara, California, is shown on February 4, 2024, exactly one year ago, as a potent atmospheric river storm, the second in less than a week, doused the region.

Description: Space Weather Atmospheric Reconfigurable Multiscale Experiment (SWARM-EX) is a NSF-funded mission to launch three identical CubeSats into LEO to investigate advanced scientific phenomena ...

Scientists think that the quantity of alumina from incinerated satellites is already approaching the same levels that result from the atmospheric demise of natural space rocks such as asteroids or ...