Something seems off. At a glance, life on Earth continues as it always has. People walk the streets, do their jobs, and spend ...

Solar panels already power the International Space Station, but for the Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) to deliver energy to Earth, the researchers needed to develop solar energy transfer systems ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS ...

Earth’s space junk problem isn’t just growing—it’s accelerating. According to the European Space Agency’s latest Space Environment Report, 2024 saw some of the largest debris-generating ...

Sound of a Meteorite Hitting Earth Is Captured for the First Time By McKinnon de Kuyper • January 16, 2025 A couple returned home to a burst of debris on their walkway.

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact.The threat is all ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032. Asteroid's Chance of Smacking Earth Drops Dramatically. Here's What to ...

A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm. The half-ton craft, known as Kosmos-482, was designed to land on Venus but ...

Why is space debris a problem? There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states ...

The idea of a solar beam that transmits energy from space to Earth was first proposed in 1968 by Peter Glaser, an engineer working with NASA during the Apollo era. At the time, it was considered ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...