The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high ...

Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...

Thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit could create a doom loop of dangerous debris and Julia Musto details the problem ...

Experts say space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere could jump to 15 objects a day within 10 years. #EuropeInMotion ...

An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

To clean up hazardous space debris orbiting the Earth, a group of students that includes Jackie Edwards ’25 is developing ...

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year ... Silber used a network of infrasound sensors around the world maintained by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.