While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

(As of March 2025, over 2,000 rocket bodies are still in Earth orbit, according to the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office.) RELATED: What is space junk and why is it a problem?

Space junk has no propulsion. This depends on altitude (affecting atmospheric density), mass, and cross-sectional area. I used an exponential atmospheric density model with a scale ... Fuel mass is ...

DEBRIS from a SpaceX Starship rocket that broke apart mid-flight on March 6 has been located and recovered in The Bahamas, with officials conducting environmental assessments to determine whether ...

Space debris consists of defunct artificial materials orbiting Earth that usually come from satellites and rockets disintegrating ... ESA's statistical model has estimated that there are 1.1 ...

SPACEX’S STARSHIP, THE BIGGEST ROCKET EVER MADE TO EXPLODE ... THEN THIS. ALL THAT DEBRIS SEEN FROM CENTRAL FLORIDA TO THE CARIBBEAN. SPACE OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THE INCIDENT AND ISSUED A ...

SpaceX's eighth flight test of its Starship spacecraft ended with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the company said. Contact with the ship was lost about nine minutes after the launch.