A spacecraft has successfully closed in on a massive chunk of metal zipping around Earth, capturing images of it—a big leap ...

By Kantaro Komiya and Nivedita Bhattacharjee TOKYO/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Japan's Astroscale, a company specialised in ...

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed ...

Smaller fragments burn up during re-entry, but larger pieces — rocket stages ... objects in orbit using radar and optical telescopes. However, these organizations can track debris only if ...

By the end of the century, a shrinking atmosphere could create a minefield for satellites, like those deployed by SpaceX's ...

The head of Poland’s space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory.

SpaceX had another unplanned explosion during the latest launch attempt for its Starship rocket, sending fiery debris raining ...

A couple witnessed the SpaceX Starship explosion that happened on March 6, 2025, sharing images in a now-viral TikTok. The incident resulted in their flight getting detoured back to the airport they ...

Thousands of pieces of space debris are in orbit, but the number grows to the ... A gibbous moon shines early on June 28, 2015, as a SpaceX, Falcon9 rocket is set to launch at the Cape Canaveral ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet ... become more littered with debris as climate change lessens ...

Credit: Varda Space Industries The new mission is underway on orbit just ... space debris mitigation, Earth observation, climate monitoring, and communications. Rocket Lab’s spacecraft platforms ...