Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies ...

At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This constellation of machinery is the technological backbone of modern life, making ...

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 ...

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other ...

Bad news, earthlings. Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all: The gravitational tug of a passing star could either cause another planet to smack into Earth ...

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 ...