Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

Researchers calculated both the odds of falling rocket debris disrupting air travel, but also colliding with an aircraft ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

NASA released views of several angles of SpaceX Starship’s second test flight. The massive rocket launched from SpaceX's ...

The study published on Nature.com highlights the threat growing space exploration can cause humanity back on Earth ...

Space junk is anything that humanity has put into low Earth orbit that hasn't either fallen back to the planet or spun out into space—and there's a lot of it. Anncy Thresher, an assistant ...

Some high-density airspace regions could have as high as a 26% of being affected by an uncontrolled rocket body reentry.

Humans are littering space with thousands of satellites, which pose a risk to climate and the environment, space ...

The call today is for binding rules to protect the orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars from space debris contamination. Initiatives need to be formulated for effective, sustainable, and equitable ...

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an environment worthy of preservation. In fact, reforming how we operate in ...

Uncontrolled space debris reentries are of growing concern. The prospect of leftovers from space hotfooting into the Earth's ...

As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.