American space agency NASA awarded a NIAC grant to ThinkOrbital for a study into building a shipyard in space using ...

Our exploitation and exploration of space has left 13,000 tonnes of junk orbiting Earth. Defunct craft and larger pieces of debris are also colliding, adding to the millions of smaller fragments which ...

Space debris is a real hazard to life on Earth, a physics expert has warned, highlighting the dangers of falling space junk ...

As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

The Garden: Elsa Robinson’s sculptures, full-sized figures and a beckoning quilted cave to lie in are all part of her show surrounding a massive fabric tree, hand-stitched by the artist and her family ...

Did you see it? Some in the western suburbs of Chicago Tuesday, including Yorkville and Wadsworth, reported seeing objects ...

A clearing in the clouds Tuesday night allowed people in West Michigan to catch a stunning display overhead as space debris ...

This rapid increase in satellites that no longer serve a purpose will require new methods to deal with them - most commonly through other satellites known as on-orbit servicers (OOSs). Depending on ...

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

There are billions of pieces of space junk orbiting Earth, and more than 25,000 of those ... constellation spacecraft), adapted for different orbital regions (e.g., LEO, MEO, GEO), for different ...

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