A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and ...

The 2013 movie Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, is the tale of a domino of space disasters triggered by ...

Ukraine has targeted an explosives manufacturer in Russia, as well as a storage warehouse at a military airfield in the Lipetsk region, according to a statement from the Ukrainian General Staff.

Researchers from the orbital mapping firm LeoLabs are raising alarm bells about the dangerous amount of space junk littering ...

Boeing's communications satellite, iS-33e, has been confirmed as a "total loss," impacting customers in Europe, Africa, and ...

Harris says she's pleased with record early vote turnout in Georgia and N.C.

The project is intended to help understand how exactly satellites break apart so that scientists can learn how to prevent the creation of more space debris. Space junk is becoming a bigger problem ...

The unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle has been in space since late December, and it has been used for classified ...

While it’s true that some space debris re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, the idea that all debris will eventually meet this fate is misleading. Only objects orbiting in low Earth ...

The amount of space debris (old satellites and spent rocket stages) falling back to Earth has doubled over the past 10 years. A few hundred tonnes of old space junk now vaporises in the atmosphere ...

Milton displaced people and wildlife like alligators. But "it's not a monster movie out there," and there are other reasons ...