Musk noted in a recent regulatory filing that he has had only one “low-velocity debris generating event” in seven years ...

On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

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

The company is planning ways to meet the energy and computing needs of AI, even as the company mulls a merger with xAI.

How much space junk is currently orbiting the earth? Credit: Space.com | animation: ESA | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta ...

With every rocket we launch into the Earth's orbit we're trapping ourselves on our own planet. Wait, how could sending ...

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their trajectories, according to new research.

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.

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.

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...