There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

An emotional rescue for America came via the first U.S. artificial satellite. Explorer 1 was boosted into space by the Army ...

And now, as the new space race heats up, spawning tens of thousands of satellites in orbit around the Earth, it only stands ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

In the silent void above Earth, secrets often drift unseen — until someone looks closely. Early this year, three Russian ...

Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

True Anomaly will take its space-security work far afield next year.The Colorado-based startup, which aims to make space a ...

Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

Russia has launched three mysterious satellites, Kosmos 2581, 2582, and 2583, into Earth's orbit, sparking concerns about ...

With patches of blue sky peeking through a mostly overcast sky, SpaceX launched 27 Starlink Internet satellites into ...

Amazon is launching 27 satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) next week, kicking off its years-in-the-making plan to set up a ...

Scientists fear an "irreplaceable" loss of key climate data as Trump's cost-cutting plans target a key CO2 monitoring site in ...