Feb. 5, 2025 — There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a recent study. While the chance of ...

We're getting more eyes (satellites) on the sky, but we're also creating an increasing amount of space junk that has scientists on edge. Space junk is anything that humanity has put into low Earth ...

Designing a Satellite to Hunt Small Space Debris Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one ...

Since Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster in space in 2018, cars made on Earth by humans have made their entrance onto the intergalactic stage. For all you alien readers out there, we created this ...

A growing accumulation of space junk, such as spent rockets and defunct satellites, presents a serious collision risk to active missions. If this orbital clutter remains unchecked, it will cause ...

Super Mario Galaxy is a platformer game featuring 3D worlds and Mario in the spotlight. You’re still on the seemingly never-ending quest to save Princess Peach from Bowser. However, the universe, too, ...

Like the first one, Galaxy 2 packed all of the charm and childlike wonder expected from a Mario game into an innovative and fitfully challenging platformer, with novel gravity effects and ...

But this week’s two space debris-related events in the Bahamas and Europe point to how successful rocket launches can also leave their mark on Earth. They also highlight how the rise in the ...

The skies above Hainan lit up on Tuesday as China launched a Long March 8A rocket, but the aftershocks of that event were felt hundreds of kilometres away – in the Philippines. The provinces of ...

Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland. The flaming ball was possibly the remains of a rocket booster, an astronomer says. The Kenyan ...

A mysterious bright light that shot across the skies above Norfolk has been identified as space junk. Early risers were shocked to see the comet-like shape with a glowing head flying past just ...