Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently ...

Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something extraordinary behind his warehouse in Poland: a charred ...

SpaceX’s Starship Thursday night launch was brief — contact was lost minutes after it roared into the sky and exploded. Floridians across the coast witnessed flaming space debris falling from the sky.

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on the ...

The risk of flights being hit by space junk is still small, but it’s growing. About three pieces of old space equipment —used rockets and defunct satellites—fall into Earth’s atmosphere every day, ...

It can be challenging to quantify how much of a danger space debris poses. The International Civil Aviation Organization ...

In the early morning hours of February 19, 2025, a bright object streaked through the skies above western Europe. The mysterious, flaming hunk of metal traveled for several hours before smashing into ...

October is Space Month. At Duke University, space research is more than just science — it's a bold journey across disciplines. This is the fifth in a series of stories featuring innovators, dreamers, ...

"We're now in an era where there's multiple governments, multiple companies involved in space. So the shift is not just one ...

Falling space junk produced by rocket launches poses a risk to the aviation industry—with a roughly one-in-four annual chance that a piece of debris will pass through busy airspace. This is the ...

A new study by Canadian researchers published in Scientific Reports notes the risk of such an incident occurring is rising due to increases in both reentries and airline flights, according to ...