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

The new study found there's a 26% chance the threat of space junk could shut down a crowded airspace in Europe, Asia or North ...

French Mirage 2000 fighter jets delivered to Kyiv amid North Korea missile warning - Ukrainian military officials say that North Korean ballistic missiles fired by Russian forces have become far more ...

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

This discovery is promising for scientists and NASA, which plans to land astronauts at the south pole on the near side of the Moon. This region, unaffected by the asteroid impact, holds older rocks in ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is already scheduled to return the astronauts under a plan announced by NASA in August.

The space debris problem won't solve itself. We've been kicking the can down the road for years as we continue launching more rockets and payloads into space. In the last couple of years ...

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A Canadian man narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite ... NASA last year after space junk from a pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station flew through the roof, causing ...

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.