Reports suggest that countries like Russia and China are developing advanced counter-space capabilities. These include a mix of kinetic, non-kinetic, and cyber tools designed to disable ...

US Space Force aims to deploy maneuverable spacecraft, not as isolated units but housed within a central "mothership" capable ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

The ESA was in discussions with SpaceX in October 2024 to join an international effort towards reducing space debris, according to reports. As part of ESA’s Zero Debris initiative, it aims to prevent ...

“There’s a lot of objects in space; satellites, pieces of debris from satellites that have either hit each other or broken up. There are tens of thousands of objects just in low earth orbit ...

In 1995, NASA issued the first comprehensive set of orbital debris mitigation guidelines. Two years, later the U.S. government used these guidelines to develop the Orbital Debris Mitigation ...

then the debris environment will change too,” Parker said. “We show the long-term outlook on orbital debris is critically dependent on curbing our greenhouse gas emissions.” ...

This self-cleaning mechanism helps clear old satellites and debris. However, if drag decreases due to a contracted thermosphere, outdated spacecraft remain aloft for decades, congesting key orbital ...

That’s because space will become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature’s way of cleaning it up. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the air near Earth’s surface also cools ...

There are tens of thousands of plum-sized pieces of space junk that hit with the power of a crashing bus, according to The Aerospace Corporation, which monitors orbital debris. That junk includes ...