NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

A failed launch left a batch of Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit last year, and it appears that a fragment of one fell ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years ... there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern Pacific Ocean ...

Now it's estimated that 44,000 kg of space rock hits our planet ... threat to people on Earth, but would generate a sizable impact crater on our planet's only natural satellite.

In December, the asteroid had a 3.1% chance of striking Earth. However, NASA now suggests that it’s our natural satellite that faces a slight risk of impact. "There still remains a very small ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit ... There are ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.

People and planes often flag wildfires before satellites do, but satellites can play a critical role when it comes to ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

The Spacecraft Speedometer is currently deployed on the Space Test Program-Houston 5 platform on the International Space ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years ... there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern Pacific Ocean ...