A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is set to collide with the Moon on August 5, highlighting growing concerns over deep ...

Satellites, rocket stages, and shattered fragments now crowd low Earth orbit so densely that a single collision at the wrong ...

Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

Cislunar space has become the focal point of considerable interest and strategic planning because of the many proposed ...

Tiny pieces of space debris only 2 inches in size clutter a valuable orbital region where some of the most indispensable satellites reside.

Every year, thousands of satellites are launched into orbit around our planet. The result is an increasingly congested "space ...

Clean up on spacelane five.

But the space in Earth’s orbit is not limitless, and it is increasingly polluted. Each pink dot represents one of roughly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six metallic spheres found at Forrest Beach in Queensland, Australia, were likely space debris, the Australian Space Agency said. ...

China has launched its first commercial satellite network, the Gande Constellation, with 120 satellites to monitor space ...

A rendering from the research team's orbital simulation illustrates how synthetic light curves generated from 3D models help predict the spin and orientation of rocket bodies in low earth orbit.