Humanity has wrapped Earth in a growing halo of satellites, rocket stages and metallic shards, a messy byproduct of the space ...

Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

SpaceX is carrying out one of the largest in-orbit reshuffles in the short history of commercial spaceflight, pulling thousands of Starlink satellites into lower paths around Earth after a close call ...

SpaceX has launched the Stargaze system to provide free satellite tracking and collision data to all global operators. This initiative aims to prevent orbital disasters and ensure the long term ...

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 ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...