Without the move, the satellite debris would have come within about 3 miles of the space station. The fragment in question was from Russia's Cosmos 1408 satellite.

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

On Nov. 15, 2021, the satellite (which was no longer functional) was intentionally destroyed by Russia in an anti-satellite missile test that created an estimated 1,500 pieces of orbital debris.

A mysterious Russian satellite with a shady mission has broken apart in Earth's orbit, creating a hazardous cloud of debris zipping around the planet and menacing other satellites, US Space Force ...

Russia has conducted an antisatellite weapons test. The resulting debris field has forced astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter while the debris flies by in orbit.

The event, not so far confirmed by China, was reported after optical sensor data suggested the satellites "appeared visually ...

The Russian debris came as close as 14.5 meters (approximately 48 feet) from the satellite, according to the Space Debris Monitoring and Application Center of the China National Space Administration.

The detonation of a Russian anti-satellite missile created over 1,500 pieces of trackable space junk and thousands of smaller pieces of debris. U.S. authorities condemned the test, which is ...

A British satellite in orbit around Earth has successfully tested out a particularly pointed method for cleaning up space debris: piercing objects with a harpoon. In a new video taken from the ...

A Russian satellite has broken up into at least 180 pieces of debris in space, forcing a NASA crew to temporarily shelter in place at the International Space Station, U.S. officials say.. The ...

Dish, the satellite television provider, has agreed to pay a $150,000 fine as part of a settlement with the F.C.C. for violating space debris rules.

About three dozen skywatchers in western Canada went out to see Wednesday night's total lunar eclipse and got a surprise bonus: the fireworks show created by the Pentagon’s shootdown of a ...