Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...

Space debris poses a growing threat to Earth, highlighting the urgent need for stronger regulations and accountability in ...

There is a 26 percent chance every year that an out-of-control rocket will fall through busy airspace, researchers calculate.

There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership spinning out of control. The protagonist rises to the challenge with a ...

where it burns up upon reentry. However, when satellite owners fail to follow disposal protocols for cleaning the orbit or unexpected failures occur, the satellite is left in space, creating debris.

A new study warns that climate change, already posing significant challenges on Earth, could soon worsen the problem of debris in low Ear ...

Dozens of people have reported what is believed to be burning space junk moving across southern Australian skies on Saturday night.

While some space objects burn up completely in the atmosphere, because of their large size, rocket bodies are much likelier to break up into debris that survives reentry and falls back to Earth.

Still, space debris is an increasing problem, with experts warning that the breakup of rocket parts and satellites during reentry could be a danger to aviation and potentially a danger to people ...

The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote,” the European Space Agency said in a statement. “The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is ...