Randeep Bubbra explores the legal, regulatory, and technological challenges of space collisions, liability, and the need for ...

Their first tracker is now in orbit. They plan to use a series of these to generate live maps of satellites big and small, ...

After Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned earlier this week, many of us have been asking what happens to a dead body ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory has introduced the "Spacecraft Speedometer," a novel technology for tracking satellites in ...

Why SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Arianespace made Fast Company's list of the most innovative companies doing work in space.

Moreover, space debris is a growing problem ... on satellite specifications and the frequencies of their radio transmissions, ...

As global warming continues, the upper atmosphere will cool and become less dense, reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earth’s orbit is absolutely littered with space junk, and every new rocket we send ...

“There’s a lot of objects in space; satellites, pieces of debris from satellites that have either hit each other or broken up. There are tens of thousands of objects just in low earth orbit ...

A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth’s orbit because of climate change. The study, recently published in Nature ...