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

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

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

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

The UK has launched a £75.6 million bid to build a spaceship to clear space debris, including satellites. Officials say the ...

In 2020, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to "purchase a unique service: the ...

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 ...

Astronomers in Western Australia detected a powerful radio burst, initially mistaking it for a new astronomical object or a ...

There are more than 10,000 satellites now in orbit and growing space junk to match. In recent years, more companies — most notably Elon Musk’s Starlink — have ventured into low-Earth orbit, from where ...

South African aerospace firm CubeSpace says it is on track to reach a valuation of $1 billion (R18 billion) and achieve ...

The object was likely either a meteor or space junk, with most sightings of the streak of light and fireball coming from ...