The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

When fiery debris from SpaceX Starships rained down across the Atlantic, air traffic controllers scrambled to delay takeoffs ...

Karachi's night sky lit up as a meteor blazed through, leaving residents in awe and social media buzzing with videos. Many ...

KARACHI: Residents of the port city witnessed a rare sight in the wee hours of Monday as a bright fireball shot through the sky, setting the night alight.The burning meteorite was observed by ...

Climate change isn’t just affecting Earth, it’s reshaping space as well. A new MIT study reveals that rising greenhouse gas ...

That's because space will become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature's way of cleaning it up. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the air near Earth's surface also ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit ... and can take hundreds to thousands of years to fall. The higher, outermost reaches of Earth’s ...

holding the first workshop on the reentry of space debris in 1982. These were motivated by Skylab‘s reentry in 1979, which resulted in debris falling to Earth. There was also the breakup of the ...

“The sky is quite literally falling ... space could become too crowded, leading to more collisions and debris,” warned Parker. Millions of pieces of debris orbiting Earth are about three ...