NASA astronaut Chris Williams, who has became famous for his astral photography during his stint at the ISS, captured sights ...

Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall ...

Two private companies are partnering up to establish a repeatable debris removal service for low Earth orbit, and they want ...

There was nothing terribly remarkable about the Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 satellites—at least not at first. Iridium was a 1,500 lb. communications satellite the U.S. launched into space in 1997; ...

China's Shenzhou-20 completed their mission's fourth spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | ...

An image of Starlink-35956, a satellite that suffered an in-orbit anomaly Dec. 17, confirming the spacecraft was largely intact despite generating hundreds of pieces of debris. Credit: Vantor KENNEDY ...

A new study has confirmed that space debris in low Earth orbit loses altitude much faster when solar activity reaches about two-thirds of its peak. The increased ultraviolet and particle emissions ...