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 ...

NASA's technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has a bent boom in Earth orbit, a newly released ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

The images, released July 30, show a 15-year-old rocket stage (that would weigh 3 tons on Earth) as seen by the ... around footage of discarded rocket in orbit (video) Tuesday, July 30, 2024 ...

An Intelsat internet satellite has mysteriously broken apart in Earth's orbit, raising concerns about the cause and the risk of space debris colliding with other satellites. On Saturday, the ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon ... But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply defined as a small, rocky ...

Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat.