L ast February, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set the skies of Europe ablaze before crashing down to Earth in Poland, ...

Low Earth orbit now holds thousands of satellites, and the count keeps rising. That growth has made space feel roomy in ...

Scientists are using earthquake sensors to track space debris falling to Earth, by detecting sonic booms from re-entering ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ” Debris from an obliterated U.S. spy satellite is being tracked over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans but appears to be too small to cause damage on Earth, a senior military officer ...

ESA’s Zero Debris Vision sets six priority goals: preventing debris release, ensuring clearance at end-of-life, preventing ...

Astrophysicists are warning that low Earth orbit is reaching a critical tipping point, where satellite collisions could happen faster than previously imagined. A new metric, the ...

Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris put ...

The SpainSat NG-II military communications satellite suffered debris damage while transiting to its final orbital position, with an assessment underway. “The technical team is analyzing the available ...