Tens of thousands of pieces of space debris are hurtling around Earth right now. These defunct satellites, spent rocket ...

Space is getting increasingly crowded and experts are sounding the alarm. In a report, the European Space Agency said around 1,200 pieces of rocket and satellite debris fell back to Earth last ...

The ESA is calling for urgent action.Every year, one satellite is destroyed by a space junk collision. Combined with increasing frequency of commercial space launches, which now account for most ...

It was the first known in-orbit collision to occur between two human-made spacecraft, but certainly not the last: In 2023, the ESA found that space debris tends to smash into other debris ...

The Trump administration's plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government's first civilian-run space ...

Though space is vast and odds of a collision are tiny, the Aug. 6 space junk mishap is likely on the radar screen of SpaceX's upcoming Polaris Dawn mission.

A long-dead experimental Nasa satellite suddenly emitted a powerful energy blast recently, leaving scientists perplexed.

Doubling the number of objects in space increases the collision risk by approximately four times. How big a problem is space junk? The amount of orbital debris is growing fast, said Ars Technica .

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send debris hurtling towards our planet that could take out orbiting satellites ...

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the four Polaris Dawn private astronauts no earlier than Aug. 26 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.