Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ...

Tropical Storm Chantal makes landfall in South Carolina, the first system of hurricane season to impact the US Ann-Margret, ...

In recent years, outer space has started to resemble a crowded highway during rush hour. According to the European Space ...

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each ...

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

There are more than 10,000 satellites now in orbit and growing space junk to match. In recent years, more companies — most ...

A long-dead experimental Nasa satellite suddenly emitted a powerful energy blast recently, leaving scientists perplexed. Astronomers at Australia's Curtin University discovered the strange pulse from ...