Our ability to efficiently detect space debris has taken an important leap forward, thanks to a new technique in…

The Federal Communications Commission gave Amazon the go-ahead Thursday for its ambitious Project Kuiper, which…

Incredible video taken last night in Australia shows what was likely the late-stage of a Russian rocket burning up…

A large, out-of-control piece of space debris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday, passing over much of the…

Update: U.S. Space Command has confirmed that the decommissioned satellites in question, the joint NASA-Netherlands I…

The European Space Agency has commissioned the first-ever mission to remove a single piece of space debris from…

Astronomers at a Chilean observatory were rudely interrupted earlier this week when a SpaceX satellite train…

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Flashes lit up the sky over Chile last week, some even causing fires on the ground—but a new report has found that…

Earlier today, the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace was notified by the U.S. Air Force that its Genesis II…

The European Space Agency was forced to perform a “collision avoidance maneuver” to prevent its Aeolus spacecraft…

Members of the American Astronomical Society are speaking out about the potential for large satellite…

If there is one thing no one needs, it’s additional spaces for brands to overwhelm humanity with even more…

India’s first successful test of an anti-satellite weapon has produced an orbiting debris field consisting of at…

In a surprise televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s first successful test…

The area immediately above our planet where most of our satellites live might seem like an inexhaustible place, but…

A small satellite has captured a piece of space debris using a claw-tipped harpoon. The test represents an important…

An inflatable space sculpture launched to orbit in December remains unfurled, in one of the more unanticipated…

Tomorrow morning, an Epsilon-4 rocket will blast off from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center in Japan. Onboard is a…

As if there isn’t already enough junk in space, an artist is planning to launch a reflective, inflatable sculpture…