The proposed cuts have sparked a strong backlash from the space industry. Seven major trade associations representing more ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

An important Earth-observing satellite just experienced a heart-pounding near-miss as it moved to avoid space debris. The European Space Agency detailed the Sentinel-1A satellite's dramatic dodge ...

NASA spacecraft, Russian satellite passed in low-Earth orbit at altitude of 373 miles By Stephen Sorace Fox News Published February 28, 2024 10:18am EST | Updated February 28, 2024 11:13am EST ...

MOSCOW – The crash of two satellites has generated an estimated tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that could circle Earth and threaten other satellites for the next 10,000 years, space ...

Collision 500 Miles Above The Earth Feb 11, 2009, 11:07pm EST Jun 19, 2013, 04:50pm EDT. Share. Save. ... Data bounces from phones and devices on Earth to the closest satellite, ...

The recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has caught astronomers' attention for an unexpected reason. While the risk of ...

Action had to be taken because the ESA's Aeolus satellite and a Starlink satellite were on a course that carried more than a 1-in-10,000 chance of a collision. According to the ESA, the Earth ...

This near-collision is significant because it illustrates how much space debris is floating around in low-Earth orbit. According to LeoLabs, a layer of the LEO that’s only about 62 miles thick ...

The Infrared Astronomical Satellite and the Gravity Gradient Stabilization Experiment are essentially dead, but they’ve remained in Earth orbit long after they stopped being useful.

A three-decades old Soviet satellite has disintegrated in orbit some 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above Earth, likely following a space debris strike.

The question of where Earth's large amount of water came from may find its answer by looking to the Moon. According to research by planetologists at the University of Münster, a collision with a ...