SpaceX is racing to get its Starship ready to propel NASA astronauts to the Moon but the multiple test flights are littering ...

The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on ...

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

From July 3 through July 8, it will be possible to sight the two largest objects currently in orbit around the Earth, passing ...

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

Also called space debris, space junk is comprised of non-operational satellites and other human-made objects that continue to hurtle around Earth's orbit long after they served their purpose.

Space debris poses an extremely minimal risk to humans, Byers explained, but it's possible that larger parts could cause damage if it lands in inhabited regions.

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

NASA said the debris was from SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission, which launched to space on Aug. 26, 2023, then returned after a six-month expedition at the space station.

The debris came from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket launched on July 24 to deliver a module to the country's new Tiangong space station. The large rocket has a core stage and four solid rocket ...

The detonation of a Russian anti-satellite missile created over 1,500 pieces of trackable space junk and thousands of smaller pieces of debris. U.S. authorities condemned the test, which is ...

Orbital debris is (nearly) forever, and threatens to render near-Earth space (under 1250 miles, or 2000 km altitude) unusable, and all but impassible. The 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test and the ...