A recent event involving a Russian satellite, the Luch/Olymp, which appears to have disintegrated in orbit, has raised ...

When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be threatening Britain within days.

Space debris consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages & other fragments.

In late December 2025, a startling report revealed that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation had to perform around ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon is about to get walloped by a big piece of space junk. The leftover rocket will slam into the far side of the moon Friday. Experts think it is from a China launch ...

Dots representing tracked bits of space junk encircle the planet. Most of these objects are concentrated in low Earth orbit — the region of space within 1,200 miles of the Earth's surface. - NASA ODPO ...

Now from airplanes to outer space. We have news of three Chinese astronauts who are finally back on Earth. They'd had to extend their stay on China's space station by more than a week due to space ...

A massive solar storm can trigger the low Earth orbit to collapse into Earth.

"2.8 days is the average expectation value for time to the first collision." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How long would it ...