The cleanup is now in phase two, which involves removing all the remaining debris. And it is not going very far at all — in fact, a lot of it is staying right in L.A. County, just hundreds of ...

Exceeding the carrying capacity would create unstable regions where collisions would create too much debris for satellites to safely operate there. The researchers say that some regions are already in ...

The waste is attributed to ocean currents carrying garbage from distant places and ships dumping waste at sea. This phenomenon demonstrates how currents can move debris over thousands of ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Friday that Starship is set to depart for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Tesla humanoid bot Optimus. Musk suggested in a post on X that human landings ...

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