Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each year as space dust rains down from above, adding thousands of metric tons to ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has threatened to sue Elon Musk’s SpaceX over falling debris from a rocket launch across the border in the United States. SpaceX said its efforts to recover debris ...

The bigger the rock, the less often they impact Earth. For example, a 140-metre asteroid impacts Earth roughly once every 1,000 years and one that is about one kilometre in size impacts Earth roughly ...

A piece of outer space rock that blasted through the sky above metro Atlanta is now a part of Georgia's Tellus Science Museum ...

There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US – it may have been a ...

The company deorbited about 2.6 satellites per day between December and May, causing them to burn up in the atmosphere. It's ...

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...