Researchers calculated both the odds of falling rocket debris disrupting air travel, but also colliding with an aircraft ...

NASA is testing new robot grippers that could one day remove space debris and help repair satellites in Earth’s orbit. On ...

A new study from the University of British Columbia reveals the growing danger of falling space debris striking an airplane.

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

Our exploitation and exploration of space has left 13,000 tonnes of junk orbiting Earth. Defunct craft and larger pieces of debris are also colliding, adding to the millions of smaller fragments which ...

"The FAA has directed SpaceX to lead an investigation of the Starship Super Heavy Flight 7 mishap with FAA oversight," the ...

As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.

Any time you see something falling through the sky, like leaving that trail of light, whether it’s space junk or a meteor ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

In Lightscape at the Marciano Art Foundation and his Regen Projects exhibition, polymedia artist Doug Aitken elucidates how ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

The field teams begin by reviewing satellite imagery from before and after the areas burned, studying changes in the vegetation cover. Destruction of vegetation can promote debris flows in a ...