Astronomers have detected space debris as small as 5 centimeters in geosynchronous orbit, revealing a largely hidden ...

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 ...

But the amount of stuff — satellites, discarded boosters and other debris in Earth orbit — is huge. And this new report warns that with projects like the SpaceX Starlink satellite constellation, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A piece of a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon, and researchers have already pinpointed exactly where and when ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon is about to get walloped by a big piece of space junk. The leftover rocket will slam into the far side of the moon Friday. Experts think it is from a China launch ...

Imagine a piece of space debris the size of a hockey puck slams into a Starlink satellite at about 10 kilometers per second. The kinetic energy is equivalent to 2 kilograms of TNT, or a fully loaded ...

The impact of a SpaceX rocket chunk weighing four tons will not be visible from Earth in real time – Copyright AFP/File WANG Zhao NASA said Thursday it aims to ...

Space debris drives new costs, opens orbital maintenance market in Korea focus Rising space junk turns into a costly risk ...

Now from airplanes to outer space. We have news of three Chinese astronauts who are finally back on Earth. They'd had to extend their stay on China's space station by more than a week due to space ...

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 one ...