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 ...

Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Space debris is becoming an overwhelming problem. With operators increasingly sending satellites and other ...

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