Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

You might think space as a vast emptiness. But according to the European Space Agency, it's getting incredibly crowded – at least around our planet. A European Space Agency report released April 1 ...

The three-to-five-day flight is to be lofted into space by a Falcon 9 booster. The mission is named after the Fram, a steam-and-sail powered ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his ...

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

Starlink will lower the orbits of roughly 4,400 satellites this year as a safety measure, according to engineering VP, Michael Nicolls. In a post on X, Nicolls wrote that the company is "beginning a ...

WASHINGTON — Impulse Space has signed an agreement with satellite operator SES to transport that company’s satellites to medium and geostationary orbits. The companies announced May 22 that they ...

SpaceX has announced that it's lowering the orbits of some 4,400 Starlink satellites following a near miss with a new Chinese satellite last year. SpaceX says the shift, which will take place ...