Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

The danger is not hypothetical. On April 30, 2025, the International Space Station performed its 41st maneuver to avoid orbital debris from a fragment of a Chinese Long March rocket launched in 2005.

NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there? Is the ...

Rocket bodies tend to be massive and heat resistant, posing an increased risk. Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth is posing an increased threat to aircraft while falling from space ...

The space junk pieces (by this time they had found two ... before both disappeared into the side room to talk behind closed doors with Sawchuk. Well, I tried. After that uneventful private ...

A Canadian homeowner's doorbell camera video of a meteorite crashing down to Earth right outside his front door could be ... hit by a bit of rock or junk falling from space, the chances are ...

The Tokyo-based startup developing space debris removal technologies added that it plans to start removing "space junk" from orbit by the end of March 2028. "We want to realize a service to refuel ...

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on ...

Space Junk is a problem few outside of the spaceflight industry consider, but it's a serious concern for us all. While you're highly unlikely to get hit in the head from falling space junk ...