What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's ...

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated. “We’d like ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

A recent event involving a Russian satellite, the Luch/Olymp, which appears to have disintegrated in orbit, has raised alarming questions about the rising threats posed by space debris. The satellite, ...

Europe plans to crash a satellite on purpose in 2027. Named Draco, the mission will watch a spacecraft burn from inside, ...

Every day, about three large fragments of decommissioned satellites and used rocket stages make their return into Earth's ...

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As space activity expands, the accumulation of man-made objects in orbit has become a critical challenge. Space debris ...

The Saudi Space Agency announced on Tuesday the names of the winning teams of the global “DebriSolver” competition, one of ...

(Gray News) – The risk of space debris falling through airspace is going up in 2026, according to researchers. Experts said spacecraft, or parts of one, fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere once a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) R. Lincoln Hines, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) China’s ...

On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...