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Japan surprises the world by launching a wooden satellite only 10 cm in size into space: the LignoSat project spent 240 days exposed on the ISS, withstood radiation, and could reduce space debris generated by metal structures.

Alisson Ficher 25/05/2026 at 17:40

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The Earth has become an orbital junkyard: 15,550 tons of space debris surround the planet with dead satellites, abandoned rockets, and fragments traveling at 28,000 km/h.

Ana Alice 16/05/2026 at 00:01

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Space debris already exceeds 130 million fragments in low Earth orbit, and US and Australian companies are preparing for 2027 the first regular collection service with a kind of reusable space truck.

Carla Teles 08/05/2026 at 20:06

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A piece of a SpaceX rocket will crash into the Moon, could create a new crater and reignites concerns about space debris.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 02/05/2026 at 08:51

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A piece of metal from space went through the roof and two floors of a house in Florida, and weeks later NASA confirmed where it came from.

Alisson Ficher 27/04/2026 at 18:13

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At the most remote point on the planet, thousands of kilometers away from any inhabited land, there is a cemetery of spacecraft where space structures are sent at the end of their mission.

Ana Alice 16/04/2026 at 23:55

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Scientists Capture For The First Time In History Rain Of Burning Metals In The Atmosphere: SpaceX Rocket Disintegrates Coming Back To Earth, And Laser In Germany Detects Excess Lithium Cloud And Warns About Space Junk In The Ozone Layer

Flavia Marinho 26/02/2026 at 21:05

Satélites confirmam que a órbita da Terra já acumula mais de 130 milhões de fragmentos de lixo espacial, viajando a 28 mil km/h e colocando em risco comunicações, GPS e missões espaciais no mundo inteiro

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Satellites Confirm That Earth’s Orbit Now Contains Over 120 Million Pieces of Space Junk, Traveling at 28,000 km/h and Posing Risks to Communications, GPS, and Space Missions Worldwide

Valdemar Medeiros 07/01/2026 at 11:40

Bolsa de ferramentas flutuando próxima à Estação Espacial Internacional em órbita da Terra.

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Astronauts Lose Toolbag During Spacewalk at ISS, Object Can Be Seen from Earth with Simple Binoculars, Raising Global Alarm About Increasing Risks of High-Speed Orbital Debris

Felipe Alves da Silva 05/12/2025 at 22:45

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Space Debris in Earth’s Orbit Exceeds 11,000 Tons, Expert Warns of Consequences: “It Will Be Difficult to Keep a Satellite Without Collisions”

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 08/11/2025 at 09:17

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Are We Close to an Inevitable Disaster? Increasing Space Junk Is Falling Back to Earth and Orbit Is Already Experiencing Problems

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 07/07/2025 at 16:48

Satélite da NASA em órbita expelindo pulso de luz azul intensa contra o fundo estrelado do espaço

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NASA’s Forgotten Experiment That Became Space Debris Surprises Scientists by Emitting Powerful Signal 65 Years Later

Jefferson Augusto 24/06/2025 at 15:46

Japan surprises the world by launching a wooden satellite only 10 cm in size into space: the LignoSat project spent 240 days exposed on the ISS, withstood radiation, and could reduce space debris generated by metal structures.

The Earth has become an orbital junkyard: 15,550 tons of space debris surround the planet with dead satellites, abandoned rockets, and fragments traveling at 28,000 km/h.

Space debris already exceeds 130 million fragments in low Earth orbit, and US and Australian companies are preparing for 2027 the first regular collection service with a kind of reusable space truck.

A piece of a SpaceX rocket will crash into the Moon, could create a new crater and reignites concerns about space debris.

A piece of metal from space went through the roof and two floors of a house in Florida, and weeks later NASA confirmed where it came from.

At the most remote point on the planet, thousands of kilometers away from any inhabited land, there is a cemetery of spacecraft where space structures are sent at the end of their mission.

Scientists Capture For The First Time In History Rain Of Burning Metals In The Atmosphere: SpaceX Rocket Disintegrates Coming Back To Earth, And Laser In Germany Detects Excess Lithium Cloud And Warns About Space Junk In The Ozone Layer

Satellites Confirm That Earth’s Orbit Now Contains Over 120 Million Pieces of Space Junk, Traveling at 28,000 km/h and Posing Risks to Communications, GPS, and Space Missions Worldwide

Astronauts Lose Toolbag During Spacewalk at ISS, Object Can Be Seen from Earth with Simple Binoculars, Raising Global Alarm About Increasing Risks of High-Speed Orbital Debris

Space Debris in Earth’s Orbit Exceeds 11,000 Tons, Expert Warns of Consequences: “It Will Be Difficult to Keep a Satellite Without Collisions”

Are We Close to an Inevitable Disaster? Increasing Space Junk Is Falling Back to Earth and Orbit Is Already Experiencing Problems

NASA’s Forgotten Experiment That Became Space Debris Surprises Scientists by Emitting Powerful Signal 65 Years Later

Engineers want to carve through Africa with a giant canal to bring water from the world’s second-largest river to a dying lake on the edge of the Sahara Desert that has already lost 90% of its water.

A giant brown band visible from space, approximately 8,850 kilometers long, connected Africa to America in the Atlantic Ocean, and satellites revealed that it is neither land nor pollution, but the largest accumulation of seaweed in the world, which broke records in 2025.

Brazil filled the Northeast with wind turbines but now faces the side effect of 705 giant blades reaching the end of their lifespan by 2032 just in Rio Grande do Norte, while the world projects 43 million tons of waste by 2050.

India approved the country’s first submerged road-rail tunnel, 15.8 kilometers dug under the bed of the Brahmaputra River.

Instead of burning or burying old tires, an American city is transforming about 2,000 of them into the street itself, paving its first sections with a quieter and more durable rubber asphalt.

In just one cast, fishermen are surprised to capture 14,096 mullets in Bombinhas and close a historic season with 58,000 fish; scene recorded in the Santa Catarina paradise marks the last day of the 2026 season.

10 giant tortoises are reintroduced and, in just 6 months, trigger changes that lead scientists to investigate a phenomenon absent for 180 years; the numbers recorded on the island impress researchers from around the world.