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

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

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

A recent event involving a Russian satellite, the Luch/Olymp, which appears to have disintegrated in orbit, has raised alarming questions about the rising threats posed by space debris. The satellite, ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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