SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket spiraled out, fell from space, and exploded spectacularly after its eighth launch on Thursday. SpaceX lost the video feed from Starship and cut off its livestream after ...

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver best known for his record-setting dive from space, died in a paragliding accident in Italy Thursday, according to Italian officials. He was 56. Baumgartner was ...

Scientists are studying how sensors designed to detect nuclear tests could help track space junk and meteorites crashing down in the world's most remote regions. Across the world, dozens of ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects, ...

The risk of flights being hit by space junk is still small, but it’s growing. About three pieces of old space equipment —used rockets and defunct satellites—fall into Earth’s atmosphere every day, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit are de-orbiting and falling to Earth at the rate of one to two per day. If Starlink continues scaling up ...

Richard O. Ocaya is a physicist at the University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa. At 3 p.m. on 30 December last year, residents of Mukuku village in Makueni county, Kenya, were ...