Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...

Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

Any debris created by damaged satellites measuring larger than 1 cm can pose huge threats to other active, low-orbiting ...

Researchers calculated both the odds of falling rocket debris disrupting air travel, but also colliding with an aircraft ...

A new study from the University of British Columbia reveals the growing danger of falling space debris striking an airplane.

Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter ...

Investigators searching for wreckage from last week’s deadly midair collision between a US military Black Hawk helicopter and ...

The primary manufacturer of the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, made a sudden announcement on Friday that it was adjusting the amount of its employees devoted to the project. According to the ...

A new study from researchers at UBC found that the chance of debris entering air space around major cities is as high as 26 per cent each year.

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Manoeuvring Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a ...