Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high ...

The International Space Station (ISS) executed evasive maneuvers Wednesday evening (April 30) to avoid a piece of passing ...

Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...

In the past decade, the dramatic surge in satellite launches has left space cluttered with junk. So how much space debris is ...

Dark’s flagship product, called Interceptor, represents a new approach to space defense — one that mimics how military ...

Our planet's orbit could become a junkyard; what are the dangers of runaway space debris? Chemical rockets have made it ...

Silber found that when a meteoroid or piece of space junk enters the atmosphere steeply—at an angle greater than 60 ...

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers annually.

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

Or, in other words, where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? Last month, a team of aerospace engineers at MIT released their findings from a research ...

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation ...