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

Tens of thousands of pieces of space debris are hurtling around Earth right now. These defunct satellites, spent rocket ...

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there?Is the accumulation ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

The Trump administration's plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government's first civilian-run space ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...

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The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them ...

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...

While thinking of space as one big rubbish tip isn’t nice, one perk of all this cosmic filth is meteor showers, which light ...