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Illustration of Earth's atmosphere gradual transition into outer space. Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse beyond celestial bodies and their atmospheres. It contains ultra-low levels of particle densities, constituting a near-perfect vacuum of predominantly hydrogen and helium plasma, permeated by electromagnetic radiation, cosmic ...
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities places UTM in the fourth place in the South East Asia Region, and the top in Malaysia. In the QS University Rankings, it placed 100 in the "Engineering & Technology Universities" category among other world ranked universities in 2016 UTM aims to achieve the status of a global university and rank among 50 of the world's best universities by 2020.
Space colonization, also called space settlement and space humanization, is the concept of permanent autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. The first step is the permanent human presence in space, as with the International Space Station. Artist's conception of a space habitat called the Stanford torus, by Don ...
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March 5: SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docks with International Space Station; January 9: Simple animals could live in Martian brines: Wikinews interviews planetary scientist Vlada Stamenković; November 29: NASA's InSight Lander makes it to Mars; October 12: Manned Soyuz space mission aborts during launch
A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail — both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus, which itself is a minor body composed of rock, dust, and ices. Comets' orbits are constantly changing: their origins are in the ...
Portal:Space/Intro/3 Space (or outer space) describes the vast empty regions between and around planets and stars. The study of these, and other, astronomical objects is called astronomy, one of the oldest sciences. It is often said that space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik 1, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth.
The Space Portal Main Featured content Things you can do Topics Categories. Space. Aerospace ...