NASA explains debris hitting North Carolina mountain resort from space

Space junk crash-landed in an upscale North Carolina location. A landscaping crew working at The Glamping Collective, a mountaintop resort near Asheville in Haywood County, found a large mysterious object on May 22 that NASA confirmed was part of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule that arrived at the International Station Space (ISS) in 2023. A large … Read more

Why do some planets have moons? A physics expert explains why Earth has only one moon, while other planets have hundreds

On Earth, you can look up at night and see the moon shining from hundreds of thousands of miles away. But if you go to Venus, it wouldn’t be like that. Not every planet has a moon – so why do some planets have several moons while others have none? I’m a physics instructor who … Read more