Ten years after Boko Haram shocked the world by kidnapping 276 schoolgirls from Chibok, a new documentary is telling the ...

Thousands of expendable satellites are falling into the Earth's atmosphere and turning it into a polluted "crematorium." ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments already listening to the Earth itself. By tapping into networks of ...

Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.

From gamma ray bursts and supernova explosions to black holes and unknown alien life, we rank the scariest things in the ...

The International Space Station, a structure assembled across nearly three decades of multinational cooperation at a cost that dwarfs most national infrastructure projects, is heading toward a planned ...

Discover how space debris tracking technology, automated satellite collision avoidance systems, and active debris removal missions prevent Kessler syndrome and protect orbiting spacecraft. Pixabay, ...

Space debris, also known as space junk, consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages and other various fragments from collisions. According to the ...

Space is filled with garbage. More specifically, the low Earth orbit, where most satellites and space equipment spend their time. NASA estimates that there are nearly 6,000 tons of material in low ...

It’s one extraordinary thing to launch the product of mankind’s brilliant minds into the cosmos, but it’s another to keep track of it long after the mission ends. We’ve explored before how important ...

Vantor used its WorldView-2 satellite from 150 mi. to image the Starlink spacecraft that experienced an anomaly on Dec. 17. Credit: Vantor The return of the Chinese Shenzhou-20 crew capsule did not ...

How can scientists track space junk after it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the ground? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of scientists from the ...