Space Debris

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After weeks of escalating tension, U.S. and Iranian officials faced each other Thursday at the U.N. Security Council , where America’s envoy renewed threats against the Islamic Republic despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to lower the temperature between the two adversaries. The U.S. was joined by…

Purple hair ties stretched over a door handle. SpongeBob plush toys arranged neatly on a bed. Unicorn figurines, a Champion brand hoodie, charm bracelets, seashells. These are some of the items left behind in the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings in the United States. Parents of these murdered…

A medical issue with one of the astronauts prompted NASA to bring the crew home early. NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Re-Entry and Splashdown It’s turned into an unusual mission for SpaceX’s Crew-11. Instead of remaining at the International Space Station (ISS) for the full duration of their mission, the four crew…

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NASA Hubble Mission Team Goddard Space Flight Center Jan 14, 2026 Just-forming stars, called protostars, dazzle a cloudy landscape in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex (OMC). These three new images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were taken as part of an effort to learn more about the envelopes of gas…

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Opening at arena scale, the 6,000-capacity club reflects a shift toward electronic spaces built with long-term intent, immersive production, and space to evolve Photo: Courtesy of FVTURE As soon as I step onto the concrete floor of Bangkok’s FVTURE hyperclub on its opening night, the bass thrums beneath my feet,…

Four astronauts aboard the International Space Station are returning to Earth today (Jan. 14), more than a month earlier than originally planned. The Crew-11 astronauts now face a roughly 11-hour deorbit trajectory, with an expected splashdown on Thursday (Jan. 15) at 3:41 a.m. EST (0841 GMT), off the coast of…

A screenshot from ClearSpace's promotional video for PRELUDE, showing two spacecraft maneuvering near each other in orbit. Credit: ClearSpace MILAN — The European Space Agency and Luxembourg’s ClearSpace announced Jan. 12 a new collaboration on an in-orbit servicing removal mission called PRELUDE, one that will involve two small spacecraft designed…

In new experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), microbiologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rhodium Scientific Inc. have discovered that the near-weightless environment of space can significantly reshape how bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacteria — interact with their hosts. The International Space Station is seen with Earth…