Even in space, what goes up sometimes comes back down: spent rocket stages, defunct satellites and other bits of space debris ...

Space junk is raising safety concerns for aircraft, with a 2025 study warning of a 26% chance debris could pass through busy ...

An anomaly led to loss of contact with the satellite and "the release of a small number of trackable low relative velocity objects." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Plus: China appears to be expanding its nuclear testing facilities This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

In 2026, a first-of-its-kind spacecraft—launched on a rocket dropped out of a plane—will attempt to save NASA’s Swift observatory from a fiery demise. Yes, really. Reading time 3 minutes An ...

MANILA: Debris from a Chinese rocket launched early Wednesday morning (Dec 31) may fall in the waters north of Luzon, the ...

NASA has selected Arizona company Katalyst to save the Swift Observatory from its degrading orbit and will use the company's air-launched rocket to do so. Dropped by a Northrop Grumman L-1011 ...

The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) on Friday warned that debris from China’s Long March 8A rocket launch may have fallen in ...