NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 ...

Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.

An unknown small object, traveling thousands of miles per hour, punctured a satellite in Earth's orbit. The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

A highly secretive US spacecraft is set to embark on a series of innovative flight manoeuvres in Earth's orbit. The spacecraft, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7), is an experimental space ...

NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released photo shows. The ACS3 spacecraft launched April 23 to test key aspects ...

Boeing's Intelsat 33e satellite — a large communications satellite — has mysteriously broken up in orbit, scattering at least 20 chunks of space junk across Earth's skies and affecting users ...