Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

The bold question-askers at What If explore the consequences of filling Earth's orbit with space junk. New details in Charlie ...

The band that sings about having too much time on its hands has been using it wisely in recent years. Circling From Above, out Friday (July 18), is Styx‘s 18th studio album and third in seven years.

SpaceX’s Starship Thursday night launch was brief — contact was lost minutes after it roared into the sky and exploded. Floridians across the coast witnessed flaming space debris falling from the sky.

Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong conducted a spacewalk outside the Tiangong Space Station. Their tasks includes ...

Scientists are studying how sensors designed to detect nuclear tests could help track space junk and meteorites crashing down in the world's most remote regions. Across the world, dozens of ...

Lauded artist and Country Music Hall of Famer, Marty Stuart, and his band The Fabulous Superlatives have announced the April 12, 2025 release of their first-ever full-length instrumental album, Space ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth is posing an increased threat to aircraft while falling from space, according to new research. While the probability of space junk striking an airplane ...

Something "size of a pea" could puncture Atlantis on mission to repair Hubble. May 13, 2009 — -- A myriad of space debris combined with a 21-inch scratch across delicate thermal tiles has the ...

Seismometers over Los Angeles awakened on April 2, 2024, with unusual blips. An earthquake would have been a reasonable cause for the activity, but the signals didn’t appear along fault lines. The ...

Scientists predict that there are currently more than 30,000 pieces of space junk orbiting above the Earth, and some are large enough to make their way back down to dry land with little warning. On ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm the ozone layer Dan Falk - Science Correspondent An illustration shows a ...