More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

If New Glenn can continue to demonstrate its capabilities and (more crucially) its reliability, it has the potential to take ...

Mixed Success After many delays and scrubs, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit ...

As Los Angeles firefighters battle remaining hotspots more than a week into deadly blazes, scientists and engineers hope ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its latest round of Starlink satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, lifting off ...

A space physics expert has warned that space debris orbiting the Earth and travelling at 18,000mph could cause a 'genuine ...

Kessler in 1978, predicting what might happen when the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO)—roughly 100-1,200 miles above our planet—reaches a certain critical level. "This syndrome ...

Luckily, the two spacecraft missed each other by 17 meters (56 feet) — not very far by space standards ... tragedy of the commons play out in low-Earth orbit right before our eyes," Baker ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it ...