"The fragments interact not only with the originating spacecraft’s nearest neighbors, but within a short time much of the ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

But today, we can consider how a near-miss asteroid and a possible ring around Earth affected life in the distant past because we know that space debris had a deep impact on life at another time.

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

Across a series of interviews, Dr. McKnight told me that low Earth orbit now ... but a renewal of the debris-free rings that propelled the start of the first race into space.

While the Kremlin has threatened to shoot down Western satellites aiding Ukraine, Planet Labs’ founders have played a pivotal ...

From meteorites that impact Earth ... debris will fall to the surface of Mars. ♪ ♪ But the rest will remain in close orbit, spreading out to encircle the entire planet, giving Mars a wispy ring.

People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...

Fresh off the successful New Shepard NS-27 flight, Blue Origin is making intense preparations for the first flight of its long-awaited New Glenn heavy-lift rocket. The company has rolled out New Glenn ...

The world’s first wooden satellite has been sent to space to prove that wood is a space-grade material, and, most importantly, biodegradable.

(ice crackling) NARRATOR: Over three billion miles from Earth, the space probe New Horizons ... from the other moons and rings. Each time a passing object or rocky debris gets too close to Phoebe ...