The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was detached from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module by the Canadarm2 robotic ...

Kalpana Chawla, born March 17, 1962, was an Indian American astronaut who died in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. She had a distinguished education and career in aerospace engineering ...

As global warming continues, the upper atmosphere will cool and become less dense, reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers ...

Today, it is regarded as the leading international body in the field of space debris monitoring and mitigation. Every year, representatives of UN member states and various organizations meet with ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the ...

The Moses Lake Lioness Club will open its Space Burger booth March 21-23 at the Grant County Fairgrounds, Lioness Michaelle Boetger wrote in an email to the Columbia Basin Herald. The Space ...

The return to Earth of Boeing's Starliner astronauts stuck on the International Space Station inched closer as their replacements arrived to Florida for their relief flight this week. The quartet ...

Vital services including internet access, weather forecasts and navigation could be put at risk by increasing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as growing space debris, a report has found. The warning ...

Speculation abounded online about whether the fireball was space junk or a meteor burning up as it entered the atmosphere. Facebook user Anthony Davis captured images of a fireball streaking ...

Social media posts reported seeing what is believed to be space junk over southern New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Astronomer David Finlay said footage led him to believe ...