Category: Society
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Starlink now has more than 10,000 active satellites in orbit. See the latest numbers on satellites, space traffic and the people living in space.
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Morocco returned to GMT on September 20, ending the permanent extra hour set in 2018. As Europe’s clocks go back tonight, here is how the time gap with neighbours stands.
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Astronomers led by the University of Warwick say WD J1330+6435, a white dwarf about 280 light-years away, appears green because of sodium from rocky debris and dense helium.
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Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light say single molecules on a clean crystal surface have reached the Fourier limit, a first, reported in Science.
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Japan’s MMX spacecraft lifted off on an H3 rocket on October 19 GMT, starting a journey to collect at least 10 grams of Phobos material and return it to Earth in 2031.
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Dams hold more than 11 billion cubic meters of water, a fill rate of 66.69%, the highest level in nearly ten years at the start of a farming season.
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Traders at Casablanca’s Salmia scrapyard are waiting to move to a new site near Médiouna, but the land is not yet developed.