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

As the number of flights around the world grows and the amount of junk in space rises, the chances of a collision between the two is only increasing ...

There’s a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, ...

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 ...

That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...

Two gorges on the Moon that are deeper than the Grand Canyon were carved out in less than 10 minutes by space rocks ...

A study reveals that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado are largely driven by the smoldering combustion of woody debris ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

SOME SPECTATORS GUESSED IT WAS A PERFORMANCE BY MOTHER NATURE. I THINK IT’S A METEOR SHOWER. BUT THE TRUTH IS, IT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF JUNK. SPACE JUNK IS DEBRIS FROM SATELLITES THAT CAME OFF OR ...

Barker, who had recently published an inventory of rocket emissions and pollutants from satellite re-entries in the journal Nature ... You may like Falling space debris is a growing worry for ...

“There’s not been big warnings going out whatsoever,” he added, referring to limited communication about the potentially hazardous nature ... Space Treaty, “technically, (the debris ...