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Here's what happens when two hurricanes collide

If one storm is much stronger than the other, the smaller storm usually rotates around the larger o…

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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 …

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Here's what will happen to Earth when our galaxy collides with the Andromeda galaxy

"The reason we think that our solar system will not be much affected by this collision... is that g…

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Here's what happens when two proton beams collide at nearly the speed of light

The collisions are so high energy that most of the particles that erupt into existence leave a path…

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A dead Russian spacecraft almost collided with a NASA satellite. The crash could have sent 7,500 bits of debris rocketing around Earth.

A dead Russian spacecraft almost crashed into a NASA satellite. The collision would have sent debri…

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The trash in outer space makes way for a new kind of map

The increasing amount of trash and debris left over from rocket launches and left over zombie s…

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Watch 57,000 planned satellites swarm Earth within 9 years in a stunning new animation

For one, he said, there is plenty of space for many satellites to orbit Earth. Second, newer satell…

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China is fixated on a mysterious US submarine incident in the South China Sea and keeps accusing the US of a cover-up

The Pentagon has denied accusations of a cover-up, pointing to public comments and a press statemen…

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Video captures a 3-car crash as a SpaceX rocket flies over California

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying a collection of …

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About 1 in 40 of SpaceX's Starlink satellites may have failed. That's not too bad, but across a 42,000-spacecraft constellation it could spark a crisis.

At this rate, SpaceX may leave more than 1,000 dead satellites in orbit, where they can crash into …

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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What happens when a 5,000-pound piece of space junk collides with Earth is nothing short of amazing

In contrast, re-entry events like Jules Verne are planned well in advance because leaving something…

Jessica Orwig   


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SpaceX has denied OneWeb's claim that their satellites almost collided - and accused it of deliberately misleading the press

Elon Musk's company SpaceX said it had worked with OneWeb to avoid a satellite collision and that i…

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A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body just avoided colliding in space and exploding into dangerous debris

In a collision, the satellites would have exploded into a cloud of dangerous, high-speed debris — a…

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India government ready to spend ₹33 crore to fend off space debris

The Centre has proposed Rs 33.3 crore for ISRO's 'Project Netra' for securing Indian satellites fro…

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A mysterious piece of space junk nicknamed 'WTF' could help protect humanity from itself

Scientists aren't sure if the 2-meter-wide object is a space rock or possibly debris from a rocket,…

Kelly Dickerson,Jessica Orwig   


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The entire continent of Australia has shifted - and it's causing problems for GPS systems

How did this happen? Tectonic shifts are the reason. The Australian tectonic plate is the fastest m…

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