While the official plan is to keep the ISS operational until 2030, Elon Musk has recently suggested that it should be deorbited as soon as possible - potentially within the next two years. What’s ...

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

People from North Florida to North Carolina reported a bright streak and fireball across the sky Thursday. Here's what to ...

A 1,100-pound metal ring from a rocket smashed in to a Kenyan village, where it startled residents and flattened trees ...

The ISS performed its 39th ever space junk collision avoidance maneuver on Nov. 19. Although it was the first such maneuver in 2024, it may not be the last, experts say.

The International Space Station (ISS) successfully conducted a Pre-determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) to raise its orbit and avoid getting hit by a chunk of orbital debris. This undated ...

An incoming piece of space junk recently prompted the International Space Station to take action to maneuver itself out of harm's way. A Russian cargo ship docked at the space station fired its ...

NASA says that the International Space Station (ISS) shifted its orbit on Tuesday to avoid a piece of debris. The debris avoidance maneuver involved firing thrusters on the ISS at 2:09 p.m. CT for ...

The International Space Station adjusts its orbit to avoid space debris There are at least 19,000 pieces of space debris in Earth's orbit, not including active satellites, that the U.S is monitoring.

U.S. Space Command recorded the reentry only five minutes before it struck, and while it's difficult to determine its origin, it likely came from a 2.9-ton EP-9 pallet the ISS astronauts discarded ...