With thousands of satellites in orbit and hundreds of thousands of debris fragments flying at extreme speeds, collisions are no longer a future problem. This video explains Kessler Syndrome, why it ...
Space is full of surprises, and in 2025, astronomers witnessed one of the most extraordinary events ever registered: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that lasted seven ...
Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.
In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...
In 1978, NASA scientist Donald Kessler warned that runaway collisions in orbit could trigger a self-sustaining debris cascade, making space travel nearly impossible. Decades later, crowded orbits, ...
Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...
The Earth is apparently halfway through its lifecycle, and this was revealed using an unlikely neighbour in space – and it ...
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Scientists say an ultra-powerful neutrino once thought impossible may be explained by an exotic black hole model involving a so-called “dark charge.” ...
From AI-powered dashboards to in-vehicle entertainment and connectivity, CES 2026 revealed the technologies transforming ...
The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might ...
Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link between climate change and earthquakes ...