Before the 1980s, satellites were seen as invulnerable, and their destruction was considered unfeasible. However, ...

The Trump administration's plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government's first civilian-run space ...

NASA's TIMED satellite narrowly avoided colliding with a dead Russian spacecraft this week. In the worst-case scenario, the collision could have ejected up to 7,500 bits of debris into orbit ...

An old rocket body and military satellite—large pieces of space junk dating back to the Soviet Union—nearly smashed into each other on Friday morning, in an uncomfortable near-miss that would ...

The defunct satellite and a rocket body are two of countless pieces of space debris currently orbiting the Earth. The collision could have sent thousands of new debris fragments into space that wou… ...

Hundreds of U.S. companies on Tuesday urged Congress to back off a plan to kill a small federal office tasked with managing ...

So much junk is filling Earth's orbit that collision avoidance has become a busy business. "We're talking about the dead satellites, the rocket bodies, the fairings, the wrenches, the gloves, and ...

Satellites in SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation made nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in the last six months, about double the number made in the previous half-year.

Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to track – and stop – methane ...

Satellite Collision Prediction Lost During Recent Solar Storm Collision avoidance technologies need beefing up to cope with solar storms, says astronomers.

As Space.com reports, two satellites are on a near-collision course today, and while the odds of a crash are slim, a collision would create a whole bunch of additional space junk that could pose a ...

The defunct Russian spy satellite Cosmos 2221 zipped past NASA's TIMED craft at an uncomfortably close distance on February 28, narrowly avoiding a collision.