LeoLabs, a California-based company, built a radar in eastern Arizona that monitors objects in space, specifically in the ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. New research, published in Nature Sustainability on ...

A new study says space may become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature's way of cleaning it up ...

There is a 26 percent chance every year that an out-of-control rocket will fall through busy airspace, researchers calculate.

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...

The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily halted air traffic at four Florida airports on Wednesday after a SpaceX craft ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued temporary flight restrictions for both airports after SpaceX confirmed that ...

That drag pulls space junk down to Earth ... satellites circling Earth — 7,356 in low orbit — according to the tracking website Orbiting Now. Satellites are critical for communications ...

Debris from an apparent explosion of the eighth SpaceX Starship test flight was seen lighting up the skies above the Bahamas Thursday night. Video shows the remains of the 400-foot spacecraft from ...

Until recently, Astroscale has been known primarily for its work on space debris tracking and removal. That is how it advertised itself and how it was presented by the Japanese media when it went ...

In Gravity, the 2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, astronauts Matt Kowalski and Ryan Stone are on a spacewalk when they are struck by an expanding cloud of debris, tearing Stone away from the ...

Space surveillance networks, like the U.S. Space Force, are currently tracking nearly 40,000 pieces of debris, some as large as a car. At least 130 million objects smaller than 10 centimeters are ...