At 8:30 p.m. on the night of August 22, 1888, a "fireball" struck a hill near what's now Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. The blast ...

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

"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." ...

"Eventually you can superglue a whole spaceship together." Resident shares unbelievable photo after discovering SpaceX crash ...

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

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

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 Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), active since 2015, is stationed at the first Lagrange point (L1) approximately 1.5 million kilometres from Earth towards the Sun, offering a vantage point ...

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

How debris from fourth SpaceX launch failure this year fell into Mexico; what is the danger of space debris generally?

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

An expert has raised concerns that space debris could pose a serious threat to humans, and even kill people on Earth before the end of this decade. With space debris becoming an increasing problem, ...