Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.

There's a 4.3% chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the lunar surface and creating a collision so spectacular it will be like fireworks in the sky.

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a cockpit simulation of the fatal 2025 collision between a passenger jet and a US military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington ...

A report filed by SpaceX with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late December reveals some startling information – including that its Starlink satellites had to perform about 300,000 ...

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Plasma -- the electrically charged fourth state of matter -- is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including those used to make computer chips and coat materials. Simulating those ...

The East Asian climate is profoundly influenced by complex interactions between the atmosphere, ocean, and land. A research team led by Prof. Dan Li at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese ...