To celebrate their new instrumental album "Space Junk," Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives appeared at an East ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

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 ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

Although asteroids make for splashy headlines, the likelihood of them creating a humanity-ending event is very unlikely.

At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall back to Earth every day, a new report reveals. And experts warn that the number of objects returning from space is set to increase, a possible ...

Space junk and space debris is a really big topic… It's a really big problem to track all these satellites and determine ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...

After inspection by local authorities and the Polish space agency, officials determined the object’s identity: a piece of debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had re-entered the atmosphere.

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on ...

At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall to Earth every day, a new report reveals. Some experts think it's a ...