Close calls are becoming more common as low Earth orbit becomes more and more crowded with satellites and debris.
No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Mars, but that doesn't mean humans haven't left their mark — literally.
"We have to get serious about this and recognize that, unless we do something, we are in imminent danger of making a whole ...
Over the 68 years that humans have been launching satellites into space, we have created a whole load of space junk. Why?
The first Canadian to walk in space dives deep into the origins of space debris, how it’s become a growing problem, and how ...
A fireball in the sky seen late Saturday night caused a flurry of social media posts and calls to local authorities from New ...
A Chinese satellite that no longer works caused the bright streaks Saturday night in the sky over North Mississippi that had ...
Spacecraft from NASA and other organizations captured rich imagery of our solar system in 2024, including views of Mars, Io, ...
Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove ...
A Japanese spacecraft has made a daring approach to a discarded rocket in Earth's orbit. The mission — undertaken by the satellite technology company Astroscale — intends to eventually remove ...
The 270-kilogram Optimus craft was a “trailblazing satellite to clean up space junk”, and could refuel, repair and deorbit ...
SPACE start-ups in Japan and India said they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly imminent problem of ...