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Earth’s orbit is ‘littered’ with space debris, causing near-collisions, a space lawyer says

NASA's Jupiter orbiter will pass close to the potentially habitable moon on Thursday, paving the way for Europa Clipper in the coming decade.

Late-night hosts discuss the former president referring to ‘nuclear’ as ‘the N-word’, Putin’s escalation of threats in Ukraine and Nasa’s asteroid defense test

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will examine whether Europa can sustain life

Nasa’s Dart mission successfully smashes spacecraft into an asteroid in the first-ever 'planetary defense test’.

In a world first, NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – is meant to test one potential approach that could prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth. David Barnhart…

A million people are without electricity after Hurricane Ian struck western Cuba. It could head for Tampa and St. Petersburg next, the first direct hit on those cities in a century.

As Hurricane Ian intensifies on its way toward the Florida coast, hurricane hunters are in the sky doing something almost unimaginable: flying through the center of the storm. With each pass, the scientists aboard these planes take measurements that satellites can’t and send them to forecasters at the National Hurricane…

The mood at the Labour conference in Liverpool is buoyant. The party is ahead in the polls, its leader, Sir Keir Starmer, faces no credible internal threats and the Government’s mini-budget has been mauled by the markets.