A recent study has uncovered a previously unnoticed population of small debris in geostationary orbit (GEO), where vital ...
Satellites and other objects falling from orbit into our atmosphere tend to burn up, but can that harm our atmospheres in ...
Earth is millions of miles farther from the Sun in July than it is in January. So why doesn’t summer suddenly feel cooler?
A first-of-its-kind study measured the extent to which bright constellations affect astronomers’ view of the night sky, ...
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Why Earth’s orbit is becoming increasingly difficult to govern
Earth’s orbit was once treated as an open highway. Today, it is starting to ...
Strong solar activity can nudge space debris orbiting Earth out of the sky. By tracking the positions of 17 pieces of space debris in low Earth orbit for more than three decades, astrophysicist Ayisha ...
There are tens of thousands of satellites orbiting Earth, some of which are much older than you may expect. The oldest dates ...
On September 15, 2025, the NOAA issued a G3 geomagnetic storm warning due to a large coronal hole on the Sun, which is sending solar wind towards Earth. This storm, amplified by the Russell-McPherron ...
The US has approved Reflect Orbital's test of a space mirror satellite, Earendil-1, to reflect sunlight back to Earth, but ...
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Orbit overload could devastate astronomy if 1.7 million proposed satellites brighten night sky
A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch more than 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have "devastating ...
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