Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

A recent event involving a Russian satellite, the Luch/Olymp, which appears to have disintegrated in orbit, has raised alarming questions about the rising threats posed by space debris. The satellite, ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000—about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The world's first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million ...

After a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage was believed to have struck the moon on Wednesday after drifting in space for nearly a ...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...

Ari Daniel | Host, "There's More to That" We have launched all manner of satellite and machinery into low-Earth orbit. But what goes up must come down. Most often, these items burn up in the ...

China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft’s return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there’s nothing routine about its journey home. The ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—poses a risk to humans when it falls to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown here hitching a ride on a Long March-2F carrier rocket – was hit by a piece of space debris. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took ...