A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who traveled to the International Space Station last June for what was initially a one-week mission, are now preparing for their return home after an ...

Levy County officials are searching for two 16-year-old girls who didn't return from a paddleboarding trip on Monday. They ...

As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely operate in near-Earth space in the coming decades, with local space debris emergencies ... orbital altitudes and found that some of these ...

The researchers analyzed individual orbital altitudes and found that some of these ... 6 types of objects that could cause space debris apocalypse — Our warming Earth: 2024 was hottest year ...

"MIT team found that orbital capacity ... Millions of pieces of debris are circling the Earth and colliding at the speed and intensity of a bullet. Pieces of space junk coming from past crashes ...

Once their operational period comes to an end, they are decommissioned and allowed to fall back on Earth. This mechanism has been designed to prevent space debris from accumulating. This is so far ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth – but soon it will even be messing up its orbit, scientists have revealed. It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially ...

That's because space will become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature's way of cleaning it up. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the air near Earth's surface also ...