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A Unique Combination of Antennas Could Revolutionize Remote Sensing
Bigger antennas are better, at least according to researchers interested in geospatial monitoring. That’s because higher…
This Binary Asteroid is Messed Up. It’s Probably Earth’s Fault
Space is big, really big! Finding new asteroids which are usually dark against the inky blackness…
Why is the Sun’s Corona So Hot? One Hypothesis Down, Many to Go
The temperature of the Sun’s corona is a minimum of 100 times hotter than the Sun’s…
A New Study Shows How our Sun Could Permantly Capture Rogue Planets!
Interest in interstellar objects (ISOs) was ignited in 2017 when ‘Oumuamua flew through our Solar System…
Starliner Successfully Fires its Thrusters, Preparing to Return to Earth
Being trapped in space sounds like the stuff of nightmares. Astronauts on board the International Space…
Astronomers Uncover New Details in the Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Detected
In October 2022, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected an…
Predicting Solar Storms Before They Leave the Sun
When giant solar storms hit Earth, they trigger beautiful auroral displays high in Earth’s atmosphere. There’s…
How to SUPPPPRESS Light From a Star That Is Ten Billion Times Brighter Than Its Habitable Exoplanet
Searching for Earth 2.0 has been an obsession of almost all exoplanet hunters since the discipline’s…
Space Debris From Every Angle
Near-Earth space is an orbiting junkyard of space debris. Everything from old rocket parts and pieces…