On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...

Increasingly crowded orbits full of satellites and debris pose potential hazards for services on Earth, and need regulation.

Humans are littering space with thousands of satellites, which pose a risk to climate and the environment, space ...

Space junk is a major threat with millions of debris pieces now in orbit. Risks range from minor collisions reducing the ...

SPACE debris raining down on Earth is increasingly at risk of causing “catastrophic” collisions with aircraft, a damning new report has revealed. A sharp rise in the number of rocket ...

As humanity casts its gaze further into the cosmos and fills Earth’s orbit with more satellites, space craft and debris, conversations about space policy and the development of an international ...

Scientists used photos and data from Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

A new study by Canadian researchers published in Scientific Reports notes the risk of such an incident occurring is rising ...

SpaceX's Starship might have released harmful air pollutants into the atmosphere, as well as shards of hot metal.