Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded junkyard, packed with dead satellites ...

One aim of the research is to help monitor the onset of Kessler syndrome — a chain reaction of collisions in space that, in ...

Sidus Space Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU) saw its stock rise 5.3% on Thursday after announcing it has been selected as a subcontractor ...

More than 45,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 cm are orbiting Earth. From 2035, it’s thought the space jukn could cause a ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out a way to deal with it.

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour.

The web of 156 orbiting sensors will form the country’s second space situational awareness constellation designed to bring ...

A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...

Google’s Project Suncatcher would need sophisticated collision avoidance capabilities to navigate a junk-filled landscape.

Just weeks ago, scientists warned that a "city killer" asteroid had a small chance of hitting Earth. While that prediction was thankfully revised, the planet may have to worry about another object ...