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By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...
"At some point it might not be beneficial anymore to stick around with your buddies. But if you don't, you die." ...
A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...
A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.
Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...
Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...
In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...
"We're opening the door to new countries, institutions and individuals that can bring new ideas that can really fuel an ...
Amazon has launched its first operational Project Kuiper satellites in its attempt to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink—but ...
Launch pad in space? Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as cosmic equivalent ...
Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits ... To get a sense of the biomass in those remote, mostly inaccessible areas, space-based forest sensing is the only feasible ...
According to a new study, Earth may have been "born with" the ingredients for water, meaning it likely didn't need any hydrogen delivered by cosmic rock. The breakthrough came from a rare space ...