"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." ...

Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, completed an 8.5-hour extravehicular activity ...

The space debris problem won't solve itself. We've been kicking the can down the road for years as we continue launching more rockets and payloads into space. In the last couple of years, ...

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...

The scenario in which space debris collides and creates more debris is called Kessler Syndrome, named after the NASA scientist Donald Kessler.

Artwork showing two of the potential dangers of low-Earth orbit: space debris and solar flares. | Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images An international group of researchers is ...

While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular catch of its powerful booster stage, the upper stage experienced ...

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big bruise.

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...