The space junk came from a recently launched batch of lost Starlink satellites caused by an unexpected sting in the tail from a solar storm.
It’s Amazon versus SpaceX in a battle for galactic real estate in the satellite-based internet market.
There’s nothing like a nuclear submarine, designed to hunt and kill other subs, emerging from a secret underground bunker, to ramp up the Bond vibes.
SpaceX’s Starship prototype literally blew its lid during a ground test in Texas on Wednesday, capping a rather average week for the company.
Hurricane Florence is due to smash into America’s east coast shortly, and more than a million people have been evacuated ahead of landfall.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, on NASA’s Terra satellite, acquired these natural-colour images of Lesotho blanketed in snow.
Scientists have stumbled upon an ancient city located right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and everybody wants to know if it’s Atlantis.
If you’re a MH370 enthusiast, this latest piece of tantalising information is just for you. Apparently this could be the big break that investigators are after.
NASA remind us they really are the dogs bollocks when it comes to space exploration, as they share this incredible image of planet earth taken from the longest zoom ever
South Africa is entering the space realm. The Denel Group is creating a high resolution, Earth observing satellite. The satellite will be called the EO-Sat1, and will be monitored by the South African National Space Agency.
Since man first penetrated Earth’s atmosphere, a slew of garbage has been piling up in Near Space. The majority of the junk up there is from space shuttles. Heiner Klinkrad, a European Space Agency (ESA) space expert estimates there to be about 27,000 objects in orbit, travelling 80 times faster than a passenger jet, and that number grows, daily.
Canadian Astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield has risen to Twitter fame over the course of the last few months by tweeting beautiful pictures of earth from the point of view of the International Space Station, currently orbiting around the planet at a sedate pace of 27 600km per hour. Consider this one, for example. The Isle […]
Phobos-Grunt, the 13-ton, US$ 170 million Russian space probe that was launched into orbit and promptly crippled by failed auxiliary engines, is due to crash back onto Earth soon. Russian space authorities have named January 15th as the likely re-entry date. In case you thought that your fears of high-speed orbital debris ended with 2011.