The Chinese weather satellite Fengyun 1C was deliberately destroyed by China in an anti-satellite weapon test in 2007 and peppered low-Earth orbit with an estimated 3,000 pieces of shrapnel. In 2012, ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Max Haot, CEO of Vast, the ambitious aerospace company based ...

In June 2024, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore became temporarily stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space Environment Report, the amount of space debris is rising quickly. We're sending ...

Two newly released peer-reviewed studies suggest that unidentified flying objects may have inadvertently been telescope-photographed in Earth’s orbit prior to the development of satellites and space ...

The International Space Station (ISS) travels around Earth at an incredibly fast speed of about 28,000 kilometers per hour. Because of this speed, it goes all the way around the planet in just about ...

U.S. senators, including a former astronaut, want to make outer space safer. They’ve introduced a bipartisan bill to help track space junk in low Earth orbit and increase international collaboration ...

There’s a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey’s character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership spinning out of control. The protagonist rises to the challenge with a ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...