When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be ...

Life aboard the International Space Station carries hidden dangers, from intense radiation exposure and fire behaving ...

What about storing it in high orbit? US lawmakers have asked NASA to look into storing the International Space Station (ISS) ...

When a Russian satellite shattered in orbit, the fragments did not simply drift away into the void. They spread into busy ...

In late 2025, scientists reported that for the first time, they were able to detect concentrations of plastic pollution on ...

Space debris consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages & other fragments.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms.

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

Space has long been a matter of great curiosity and perplexity for humans. Astronauts ...

Elon Musk vowed this week to upend another industry just as he did with cars and rockets — and once again he's taking on long odds.

The familiar silhouette of the International Space Station (ISS) is the first thing we think of when it comes to a habitat in space. But the ISS is not the only one. Space habitation has evolved into ...

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...