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The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.
Between July 18 and Aug. 12, you can see the Southern Delta Aquariids shower in the Northern Hemisphere by looking to the ...
The Perseid meteor shower, expected to peak Aug. 12-13, will light up the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour, offering ...
The meteor shower is expected to peak from Aug. 12-13, although moonlight will impact meteor visibility. The moon will be 84% ...
String of summer meteor showers are underway over South Carolina, with the Perseids and Delta Aquariids joining the already ...
The debris came from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket launched on July 24 to deliver a module to the country's new Tiangong space station. The large rocket has a core stage and four solid rocket ...
Space debris poses an extremely minimal risk to humans, Byers explained, but it's possible that larger parts could cause damage if it lands in inhabited regions.
Space junk is a huge problem. The surge in satellite launches in recent years is leaving low Earth orbit (LEO) cluttered with debris such as discarded rocket bodies, broken parts and defunct ...
As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...
Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth is posing an increased threat to aircraft while falling from space, according to new research. While the probability of space junk striking an ...
NASA said the debris was from SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission, which launched to space on Aug. 26, 2023, then returned after a six-month expedition at the space station. Advertisement ...
In 1978, Kessler postulated that more space debris would increase the likelihood of collisions, which in turn would lead to more space debris, and so on, in an exponential growth that may end up ...