Hopefully, this new space age we're in will incentivize governments to preemptively work out some new treaties or agreements.

The Kessler syndrome could be closer to becoming a reality as a growing number of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites fall from the sky ...

Hundreds of satellites may soon be flying in orbital regions that are already too packed to allow safe and long-term ...

A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about ...

We have to book ground-station passes, which costs money. Sometimes we even have to switch off the acquisition of scientific ...

Another concern is pollution to Earth and the ozone layer.

A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...

Theorised by NASA scientists Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais back in 1978, Kessler syndrome warns that objects orbiting ...

Every day, Starlink satellites are burning up above us, leaving behind metal pollution, debris, and growing concern about the ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the ...

An astronomer noticed the alarming trend. Elon Musk's SpaceX faces backlash over fiery satellites plummeting to Earth: 'We ...