Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...

From discarded spacecraft bolts to defunct satellites, millions of pieces of space debris are beginning to pose a larger ...

Look up at the night sky. Among the sparkling stars and wandering planets, a silent threat grows with each passing day—a ...

A 500kg Soviet rocket part is set to crash on Earth after 50 years in orbit. Scientists say it’s coming soon — but no one ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it out of Earth orbit.

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

Miní, a wild-born female jaguar, takes an unbelievable journey from the Iberá Wetlands to the Gran Chaco forest to revive a ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

Dark’s flagship product, called Interceptor, represents a new approach to space defense — one that mimics how military ...

“There is a race to fill low-Earth orbit,” says debris researcher Vishnu Reddy of the University of Arizona. It’s not only working satellites that are filling up space. There are millions of ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

Amazon has launched its first operational Project Kuiper satellites in its attempt to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink—but ...