When astronomer Samantha Lawler got an email from a journalist in May 2024 saying that space junk may have landed in a farmer ...

It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ...

In recent years, outer space has started to resemble a crowded highway during rush hour. According to the European Space ...

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

The object was likely either a meteor or space junk, with most sightings of the streak of light and fireball coming from ...

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each ...

South African aerospace firm CubeSpace says it is on track to reach a valuation of $1 billion (R18 billion) and achieve ...

A long-dead experimental Nasa satellite suddenly emitted a powerful energy blast recently, leaving scientists perplexed.

Yet the burst had us intrigued. For one thing, this burst was fast. The fastest known fast radio burst lasted about 10 ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it found multiple bright flashes of light during the day on Thursday ...

There are more than 10,000 satellites now in orbit and growing space junk to match. In recent years, more companies — most notably Elon Musk’s Starlink — have ventured into low-Earth orbit, from where ...