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Can moon dust clouds slow down global warming?
A group of US scientists this week proposed an unorthodox scheme to combat global warming: creating large clouds of Moon dust in space to...
Cornwall space launch: why rocket launches have high environmental costs even when they are unsuccessful
A recent UK mission to launch satellites into space from Spaceport Cornwall in the west of England failed to deliver the satellites to orbit....
In the universe, how many galaxies are there?
A galaxy is a massive collection of gas, dust and billions of stars all bound together by the force of gravity. Galaxies are also...
Over the past 2.5 billion years, our moon has been gradually moving away from Earth.
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know...
NASA is smashing a spaceship into an asteroid to put a plan in place that could one day spare the Earth from disaster.
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit.
The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to...
