Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

Officials in the Western U.S. who protect the public from avalanches are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration firing hundreds of meteorologists and other scientists ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered an unexpectedly complex atmosphere surrounding SIMP 0136, a massive, free-floating planetary object that drifts alone through ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

It traveled 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles) roughly perpendicular to escarpments thought to be an ancient shoreline from a time — 4 billion years ago — when Mars had a thicker atmosphere and a ...

Israel’s multilayered air defenses have been put to the test in recent years, especially following Hamas’ massacre on October 7, 2023 ... Acting as the middle tier layer in defense between ...

To put that into perspective, as of Nov. 7, 2022, only 14,450 satellites ... will be burning in the otherwise pristine upper layers of the atmosphere could alter the atmospheric chemistry and ...

Now, a study reports a self-healing cathode with an in situ-formed passivation layer that ... cm − 2 at 2.7 V with a high acetate Faraday efficiency for over 1,000 h at atmospheric pressure.

He says a particularly interesting discovery is the interaction between atmospheric rivers and the ocean. They've been able to quantify the interaction between the boundary layer of the Pacific ...