The Kessler syndrome could be closer to becoming a reality as a growing number of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites fall from the sky ...

In October 2023, NASA launched a mission toward 16 Psyche, a massive gold and metal-rich asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Estimated to hold precious metals worth around $100,000 quadrillion ...

Theorised by NASA scientists Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais back in 1978, Kessler syndrome warns that objects orbiting ...

If Starlink continues scaling up operations, there could be as many as five of these satellites raining down on us daily.

Astronomers have recently identified a mysterious “glowing object” in Earth’s orbit. This intriguing discovery has stirred the scientific community and space enthusiasts, prompting speculation about ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

The comet, which continues its journey through the solar system, has been observed by space telescopes near Earth.

The stratosphere — the layer of Earth's atmosphere between 7.5 and 31 miles up — is shrinking due to greenhouse-gas emissions, a new study found.

For the first time, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other in space.Spotted through the blurred ...

Observations by a system of radio telescopes have offered the first visual evidence for the existence of black hole pairs.

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm.