NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on ...

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

According to NASA, about 500,000 such pieces of space debris are currently orbiting earth. This animation shows the 20,000 of pieces that are larger than a softball. Story by Jacob Shamsian and ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...

How much space junk is currently orbiting the earth? Credit: Space.com | animation: ESA | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta President Trump announces new auto tariffs 3 job interview red flags ...

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 ...