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

Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.

Earth’s orbit is starting to look less like pristine space and more like a crowded ring road, packed with active satellites ...

More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

Space debris has been a major safety concern for operations for years now, but SpaceX and Starlink think they've found a way ...

As more satellite megaconstellations continue to be launched, researchers are exploring the odds people could be struck by ...

(CNN) — Space junk falling out of orbit and crashing toward Earth is a growing threat. Indeed, old satellites and spacecraft parts reenter our planet’s atmosphere more than three times a day. When ...

How can scientists track space junk after it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the ground? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of scientists from the ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments already listening to the Earth itself. By tapping into networks of ...

Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere ...