"It felt like an earthquake or a big bomb going off.” 911 lines in Newton County lit up with anxious callers on June 26, wondering what happened when a massive boom and rattling disrupted what had ...

But these Mission Extension Vehicles don't have the ability to transfer fluids from one satellite to another. That is the ...

It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ...

The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

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In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

The UK has launched a £75.6 million bid to build a spaceship to clear space debris, including satellites. Officials say the ...

Some were lost during missions, others deliberately dumped, all of them now part of the growing problem of space debris.