“I don’t know that I see the clear military advantage of refueling,” Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, the Space Force’s deputy chief ...

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

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

The International Space Station (ISS) executed evasive maneuvers Wednesday evening (April 30) to avoid a piece of passing ...

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

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

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

A dramatic aircraft chase of a falling spacecraft has provided new insights into the fiery processes that accompany the ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

From discarded spacecraft bolts to defunct satellites, millions of pieces of space debris are beginning to pose a larger ...

SpaceX launched 50 Starlink satellites in total, in two launches; the first one with 23 on board and a second one with 27. A ...

In as little as 15 years, burning satellites could cause the outermost layer of the atmosphere to warm up noticeably. Further ...