New satellite images show North Korea has deployed what appear to be balloons alongside its damaged 5,000-ton warship that ...

Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above you.

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they ...

After more than 60 years of satellite launches and space exploration, manufactured objects like derelict spacecraft and rocket fragments now litter Earth’s orbit as space junk. The waste has ...

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

Space businesses are queueing up to get payloads into space. Others are looking to clean up the mess they leave behind.

Earth’s space junk may be wreaking havoc on the stratosphere. The rapid surge in satellite megaconstellations is connecting much of the world to broadband internet. But each year, hundreds of ...

That absence of oversight, they say, could lead to an increase in dangerous space junk affecting Earth, especially as competing satellite internet companies rush to build out and launch tens of ...

A decommissioned Russian satellite broke apart in low Earth orbit Wednesday, creating more than 100 pieces of debris and adding to the space junk already in orbit. RESURS-P1, which NASA said was a ...

Today, satellite operators are avoiding collisions ... So for really large pieces of space junk, so I'm talking large satellites that are abandoned or we have upper stage rocket bodies that ...

The space junk photographed by Astroscale’s satellite shows the upper stage of a rocket that’s been orbiting Earth for the last 15 years. Astroscale Orbital debris removal company Astroscale ...