Dozens of people have reported what is believed to be burning space junk moving across southern Australian skies on Saturday night.

Astroscale has created a spacecraft designed to capture space debris and then guide it back to Earth for either a controlled ocean crash or atmospheric burn-up. For their latest test, the startup ...

According to the European Space Agency, the debris was from a Starlink launch ... at a SpaceX facility, or in the ocean far from inhabited locations. The second stage or upper part of the rocket ...

As it happened, the rocket reentered over the Pacific Ocean, not Europe ... and his colleagues calculated the likelihood of space debris from rocket launches falling into crowded airspace ...

Dec. 4, 2023 — Satellite and spacecraft operators may finally be able to detect small pieces of debris orbiting Earth using a new approach. Colliding pieces of space debris emit electric signals ...

The pyrotechnics were in fact caused by a Space X Falcon 9 rocket re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. There are reports of ...

Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, is set for another test flight. During its last test run in January, the ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot ...

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft disintegrated soon after launch on Thursday, but thousands of miles away another new rocket ...