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Space junk falling to Earth needs to be tracked—meteoroid sounds can help
Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high ...
Failed Soviet satellite is falling back to Earth — scientists warn car-sized probe could be deadly
A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...
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WPI Student Jackie Edwards Focuses on Cleaning Up Space Debris
To clean up hazardous space debris orbiting the Earth, a group of students that includes Jackie Edwards ’25 is developing ...
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Expanding the human presence in orbit faces growing risk from space debris
Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...
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A Soviet shuttle from the Space Race is about to fall uncontrollably from the sky
Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early benchmark for exploring Venus. Its ...
How was the Earth built?
They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...