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Did you experience wonky broadband service recently? A broken satellite in space might have something to do with it!
An unknown event in geostationary orbit on October 19, 2024, has led to the fragmentation of the In…
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US astronauts had to take shelter after a Russian satellite broke into over 100 pieces near the ISS
Authorities say the Russian RESURS-P1 broke into over 100 trackable pieces, with US firm LeoLabs sa…
Matthew Loh  Â
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ISRO gears up for 'extremely challenging' experiment of controlled reentry of aged satellite
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for an "extremely challenging" experime…
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A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century
Russia kept the Kosmos 2499 satellite's mission a secret, even after its bizarre maneuvers drew att…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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A Chinese satellite seems to have collided with a piece of a Russian rocket in March - the first big space crash in a decade
A Chinese satellite mysteriously broke apart earlier this year. A Harvard astronomer realized that …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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India's anti-satellite missile test may have created 6,500 eraser-size pieces of space junk near Earth, according to a new simulation
India's Defence Research and Development Organization downplayed that risk, telling Reuters that th…
Dave Mosher  Â
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Russia's hunted A-50 command planes are its eyes over Ukraine. Here's how it compares to the Boeing E-3 Sentry.
Russia's Beriev A-50 and the Boeing E-3 Sentry have played important roles in the Ukraine war. Here…
Benjamin Brimelow  Â
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A Russian missile strike put 1,500 pieces of large space junk in orbit. Even debris as big as a baseball could kill astronauts.
The debris from a Russian missile test "risks astronauts' lives" and "the interests of all nations,…
Marianne Guenot  Â
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10 things in tech you need to know today
Spotify released its Spotify Wrapped statistics, and we dive into Kamala Harris's Big Tech record: …
Jordan Parker Erb  Â
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Russia space chief's response to Elon Musk's tweet about dying mysteriously is the latest example of their trolling relationship
Last year, Dmitry Rogozin invited Musk to his family home, but since the Russian space chief has re…
Grace Kay  Â
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What would happen if the moon suddenly blew up
Real-world proponents of space colonization, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, argue that we…
Kevin Loria  Â
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A huge crack in a 1,000-foot-thick Antarctic ice block has taken an alarming turn
In November 2016, a team of scientists in NASA's Operation IceBridge survey flew over the rift and …
Dave Mosher  Â
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Here's a peek at how reporter Rob Price got inside the ultra secretive world of Mark Zuckerberg's family office in Hawaii
Price: The big story for Facebook in 2020 - barring unseen scandals - is going to be the US electio…
Olivia Oran  Â
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A giant crack in Antarctic ice is 'days or weeks' from breaking off a Delaware-sized iceberg
"Rifting of this magnitude doesn't happen so often, so we don't often get a chance to study it up c…
Dave Mosher  Â
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TiVo's new CEO details his plan to split up the embattled TV company to make it more attractive to buyers and sellers
New CEO Dave Shull was named in May to lead the split by creating one business that will hold all o…
Ashley Rodriguez  Â
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A surprisingly subtle force may have broken off one of the largest icebergs ever recorded
"To me, it's an unequivocal signature of the impact of climate change on Larsen C," Eric Rignot, a …
Dave Mosher  Â
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How AT&T conquered all forms of communication after the government forced it to break up
- [Narrator] Yep, the 1984 breakup was not the first or second time regulators came after AT&T.…
Matthew Stuart  Â
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Earth has a brand-new continent called 'Zealandia,' and it's been hiding in plain sight for ages
The authors say the last item on the list - a question of "is it big enough and unified enough to b…
Dave Mosher  Â
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As NATO gets ready for its biggest military exercise in years, things are heating up closer to Russia
More recently, Finland, which shares a 838-mile border and a history of conflict with Russia, has b…
Christopher Woody  Â
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Math professor: Here's why no one has found a trace of missing Flight MH370
Dr. Goong Chen, whose research on this theory was published in the American Mathematical Society's …