The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate ...

An animation has helped people have a grasp of the speed the International Space Station (ISS) travels at as it orbits the ...

The size and scale of the Starlink project concerns astronomers, who fear that the bright, orbiting ... with international regulators to place about 4,000 satellites in Low Earth Orbit.

The International ... with a large piece of orbiting debris, which could be a spent rocket part, a defunct satellite, or fragments of either, could be catastrophic for the space station and ...

A tiny puncture discovered in the solar panel of a small satellite orbiting Earth highlights the ... Larger orbiting structures, such as the International Space Station, are at a greater risk ...

A Russian cargo ship docked at the space station fired its thrusters for five minutes Tuesday to move the ISS out of the way ...

When the International Space Station (ISS) is retired at the end of the decade, a collection of commercial space outposts ...

NASA says that the International ... satellites, U.S. Space Forces-Space tells NPR. Additionally, NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office says there are about 9,000 metric tons of material orbiting ...

To ensure safety from an approaching piece of space debris, the ISS's orbit was raised using the Progress 89 thrusters. This ...

An incoming piece of space junk recently prompted the International ... a defunct meteorological satellite, was not necessarily on a collision course with the station, NASA said the evasive ...