A clearing in the clouds Tuesday night allowed people in West Michigan to catch a stunning display overhead as space debris ...

A satellite, initially identified as Starlink-5693, reentered Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday, causing a dazzling display visible ...

NASA estimates that there are nearly 6,000 tons of space junk in low Earth orbit, moving around our planet at speeds up to 18,000 mph. Most space debris is from human-made objects ...

Major astronomy body the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) was forced to list the discovery - made by a citizen scientist - as ...

KFIZ is receiving photos and video of what appears to be some space debris breaking apart and burning in Earth’s atmosphere ...

Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, completed an 8.5-hour extravehicular activity ...

An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.

More objects are being launched into space than ever ... Even tiny pieces of debris zipping around in LEO can be hazardous to spacecraft, making low Earth orbit inaccessible if the problem ...

Small particles from space that can pose a risk to spacecraft. Orbital Debris: Non-functional spacecraft and fragments from collisions or disintegration that remain in orbit around Earth.

A space physics ... 8 km/s in orbit (18000 mph), it will significantly slow down in the atmosphere which is where the debris will be heated but is still likely to be travelling around the 100 ...