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. experts are warning that satellite pollution is threatening to alter our view of the night sky because thousands of pieces of debris or space junk, they failed or they have been just left in orbit by humans at the end of their mission. space junk can refer to dead sate satellites. but there's smaller things such as paint particles. how are those detrimental? >> there's so much debris, even too tiny to be tracked, that's still large enough to threaten human space flight and robotic missions. they exist in the near earth space environment. since the junk and spacecraft are at high speeds, an...

Planet Mercury is the sun's nearest planetary neighbor. It has short years, long days, huge surface temperature fluctuations and really weird sunsets.

Explore our 25 weird solar system facts and see how our neighborhood is stranger than we could ever imagine.

WinnAero, the non-profit STEM education group, has announced its Spring 2022 Teacher Workshop Schedule. All workshops are one-day and taught by New Hampshire certified science/technology/engineering professional faculty. The workshops will be...

Science Fiction & Fantasy   — by Andrew Liptak — There is no better example of how science fiction’s tendency to try and imagine a plausible future is like throwing a dart at a moving target than Larry Niven’s 1964 short story “The Coldest Place.” Up to that point, astronomers widely believed that the planet Mercury was tidally locked to the Sun: its rotation matched that of its orbit and as a result, only one side ever faced the Sun, meaning that its dark side would have been much cooler. Niven took that bit of knowledge and incorporated it into his story—his first—and sent ...