The number of satellites orbiting Earth is rising fast, thanks to private companies such as SpaceX. But just how big will ...

Ninth test launch follows grounding of nearly two months Starship flew with re-used booster rocket for first time Musk had ...

A 2.5-kilogram chunk of metal found on a Canadian farm in August 2024 has become a symbol of a growing dilemma in space ...

The debris fell into the Indian Ocean away from inhabited areas. SpaceX was unable to conduct several tests it had planned ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar ...

At this moment, there are approximately 35,000 tracked human-generated objects in orbit around Earth. Of these, only about one-third are active payloads: science and communications satellites, ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year ... Silber used a network of infrasound sensors around the world maintained by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO ...

it's getting incredibly crowded – at least around our planet. A European Space Agency report released April 1 studied the space above Earth. The report says that if space debris buildup is not ...