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

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

Silber found that when a meteoroid or piece of space junk enters the atmosphere steeply—at an angle greater than 60 ...

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

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

But the space around our planet is getting increasingly congested with both functioning satellites and the junk left behind by older missions — and the problem will worsen as more satellites are ...

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation ...

The report says that if space debris buildup is not controlled soon, the area surrounding our planet may become so congested that we won't be able to use certain orbits. "This chain reaction can ...