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

When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be threatening Britain within days.

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

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 ...

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

Every year, thousands of discarded artificial satellites are orbiting the planet, with an increasing number falling back into ...

An out-of-control Chinese rocket has crashed into the Southern Pacific Ocean, after Britain readied the emergency alert ...

The UK government is making provisions for an emergency alert due to concerns about an out-of-control Chinese rocket falling from space. Officials are keeping an eye on the debris from the Zhuque-3 ...

Thousands of discarded human-made objects are circling Earth, and when pieces of that space debris fall back to the surface, they can pose risks to ...

"We are on Day 1. A lot more needs to be done." ...

A Russian signals intelligence satellite was destroyed in a collision with space debris, according to Swiss firm S2A Systems.