Before we dive in, let’s do a quick review to appreciate what it actually means for an object to be in orbit. As Isaac Newton’s famous first law of motion states, an object in motion will stay in ...

The Chinese weather satellite Fengyun 1C was deliberately destroyed by China in an anti-satellite weapon test in 2007 and peppered low-Earth orbit with an estimated 3,000 pieces of shrapnel. In 2012, ...

The International Space Station (ISS) travels around Earth at an incredibly fast speed of about 28,000 kilometers per hour. Because of this speed, it goes all the way around the planet in just about ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a ...

The ESA is trying to raise awareness of the Earth's alarming lack of preparation for the worst possible solar events.

NASA confirmed this week that the rock discovered by the University of Hawaii is the small asteroid 2025 PN7, which astronomers have confirmed as a quasi-moon- a rare type of celestial body ...

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 ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...