Debris is a growing threat to orbital infrastructure, and it’s only going to get worse as the number of launches increases ...

Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects drifting, spinning, and hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood, some of them ...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious unknown object in our galaxy that could be a breakthrough in the study of black holes. The “extremely dense remnant of a collapsed star” lies about 235,000 ...

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Astronomers have discovered a thin atmosphere around a small celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time, ...

A number of telescopes scan the skies for potentially hazardous objects. In this case, the system detected a speeding spacecraft. Credit: ESA It's good to know that our planetary defense systems work.

A database of objects launched by the United States into space is expected to be launched soon, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information, a division of the National Oceanic and ...

Astronomers recently discovered the remains of a dead star that definitely set a record, even if they’re not sure which one. At somewhere between 2.09 and 2.71 times the mass of our Sun, the recently ...