Credit: NASA NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and ...

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"Our distributed architecture solves a key challenge in orbital debris removal by enabling the deorbit and reentry of ...

Astronauts living and working on the moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and ...

Agrawal felt a calling for higher service and signed up to join the Air Force. Given his background in music, he initially ...

Space is an active place. Asteroid 2025 OT7 will fly by Earth in August 2025. It is about 170 feet wide. It will travel at ...

A massive, fast-orbiting planet is inching closer to its star, and scientists now have direct evidence of its impending ...

Giant, ridge-like structures of methane ice, known as "bladed terrain," may be much more abundant along Pluto's equator than ...

A water tornado enables a realistic simulation of the dynamics of gas and dust in planet-forming discs. Kepler’s laws confirmed in a water tank: The orbits of floating particles follow the same ...

Kepler’s third law establishes a mathematical relationship between orbital period and orbital size. The beads in the water tornado conformed closely to this pattern as well. A more detailed analysis ...

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once ...