It was not immediately known how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit.

Every launch into Earth’s orbit now adds to a dangerous congestion of junk, making space less navigable by the year. Despite ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

The world was watching the skies as Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft launched in 1972, made an uncontrolled re-entry into ...

I n the coming years, fleets of orbit-policing spacecraft could zip around the planet, keeping an eye on space tech ventures ...

There is a lot of debris in orbit around Earth that sooner or later we will have to contrive a means to go get.

After over five decades in Earth's orbit, the Soviet Venus lander, Kosmos 482, reentered the atmosphere on May 10, 2025, ...

At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This constellation of machinery is the technological backbone of modern life ...

Its spokesperson Gavin Yi claims a "debris cascade could lock us out of orbit for generations." "As orbital highways become more congested, Europe's approach to space management will determine ...

deorbit spacecraft without creating as much space junk, and even place probes in orbit around other planets. Space is not a complete vacuum − at least not all of it. Earth’s atmosphere gets ...

Hawaii — ClearSpace completed the second phase of the UK Space Agency’s Active Debris Removal (ADR) mission, by testing and refining technology to remove satellites from low-Earth orbit.