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 quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

You may well be thinking, “Hang on! Isn’t the whole point of ‘space’ that there’s no air up there?” You’re right, in a way. And yes, rockets and satellites usually rely on actual “rocket” engines to ...

A Japanese spacecraft has made a daring approach to a discarded rocket in Earth's orbit. The mission — undertaken by the satellite technology company Astroscale — intends to eventually remove the ...