A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, ...

Something is about to smack into the moon—and no, it’s not asteroid 2024 YR4. It’s a part of a SpaceX rocket. And while the ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the Moon. Now it has more than 15,000 – about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The world’s first trillionaire plans to launch one ...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...

Three weeks ago, while setting a record for the most spacewalks, astronaut Peggy Whitson lost the shield she carried to protect her against being hit by space debris. The space shield floated away, ...

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Space junk derives from various sources, such as used satellites, spent booster rockets, and parts of shattered spacecraft. This junk lingers above our atmosphere, until it collides with something ...

Metal spheres recently found on a beach in northern Queensland, Australia, draw attention to the worsening issue of space pollution.

A new analysis of years-old telescope images revealed tiny pieces of space debris that could threaten satellites in ...