Experts from the Australian Space Agency have suggested this could be a fragment of a Chinese rocket. It landed as spac…
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A new study by Canadian researchers finds that if the asteroid 2024 YR4 hits the Moon in 2032, fragments could head toward Earth. That debris could threaten satellites and spark…
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The European Space Agency’s annual report on the space environment warns that space debris is increasing rapidly. There are far more nonfunctional satellites than working ones, which makes the problem…
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Debris From NASA’s DART Impact Could Reach Earth and Mars — When It Might Arrive
On September 26, 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately struck Dimorphos, the small moon of asteroid Didymos, to change its orbit. According to NASA, the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission…
