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 ...

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

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 notably Elon Musk’s Starlink — have ventured into low-Earth orbit, from where ...

From reducing space junk cluttering the skies to securing satellites from cyber-attacks, the EU Wednesday laid out plans to ...