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 ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

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 ...

An illustration of space debris populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit - the cloud of debris objects in low Earth orbit are ... in size zooming around our orbit right now.

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era probe, is reentering Earth this month. Launched in 1972 for a Venus mission, it failed to escape ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

It is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere sometime between May 8 and May 11. The issue? It was designed with a ...

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space ...

Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early benchmark for exploring Venus. Its ...