A new frontier in space sustainability may have just opened. In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, scientists ...
Astronomers have found more evidence that a near-Earth asteroid is an ejected chunk of the moon. The asteroid Kamo'oalewa — a Hawaiian name that means "the oscillating fragment" — is a ...
In very simple terms, low Earth orbit (LEO) is exactly what it sounds like: An orbit around the Earth with an altitude that lies towards the lower end of the range of possible orbits. This is around 1 ...