Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

L ast February, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set the skies of Europe ablaze before crashing down to Earth in Poland, ...

The United States remains “unacceptably vulnerable” to a dangerous form of escalation by Russia in space, including the possibility of a nuclear detonation that could cripple satellites and disrupt ...

A recent event involving a Russian satellite, the Luch/Olymp, which appears to have disintegrated in orbit, has raised ...

For decades, Russian rocket launches have scattered thousands of tons of debris across remote regions, turning entire landscapes into unofficial space graveyards. This is the hidden story of the ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their trajectories, according to new research.

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...