An interactive map has recently highlighted the alarming increase in out-of-control rockets and spacecraft crashing back to Earth. This surge in uncontrolled reentries poses significant risks to ...

The discovery bemused residents of a small town in northeastern Australia. The objects appear to be junk from a space launch, ...

In a new study, published in the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Warwick researchers led an international effort to ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000—about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The world's first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

GOLDEN, CO — A university team has found that small orbital debris could emit radio bursts as they collide or approach each other in space. The signal can be detected with large radio dishes on Earth, ...

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Samantha Lawler and Smithsonian contributing writer Dan Falk about space junk and the concern among researchers that it is becoming a growing threat to public safety.A transcript is below. To ...

An artist’s conception shows Portal Space Systems’ Starburst spacecraft at left and its larger Supernova platform in the distance at right, both outfitted with Paladin Space’s Triton payload for ...