A major breakthrough by physicist Oscar del Barco Novillo from the University of Murcia in Spain can make a huge difference in how humans tracks potentially dangerous asteroids that can trigger an extinction-level event. While this might sound like science fiction, understanding it could help us track smaller objects in space—like comets and asteroids—that could pose a threat to Earth. …
US airspace is increasingly crowded, not all of it is regulated, and with so much up there, it’s not easy to track it all. Los Angeles, California – The United States military shot down a flurry of objects this month: a large object it identified as a Chinese surveillance balloon followed by three smaller objects that the government said might …
Pluto has some of the weirdest moons in our solar system - they are strange oblong shapes that spin erratically, unlike the synchronised rotation of almost every other moon in our solar system. Pluto's four smallest moon's have been revealed by the New Horizon's mission to have strange shapes and orbits that suggest they may have formed through the merging …