At a double observatory atop Mount Teide on the Spanish island of Tenerife, a powerful laser is being deployed to track fragments of space debris in orbit and warn when these fragments threaten ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists show earthquake sensors can track falling space debris in real time, improving safety and recovery efforts. (CREDIT: ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the public about the threats space rocks pose to Earth.

No trip to space can be counted a success unless you make it safely back to Earth. That’s a lesson American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams learned when their intended eight-day stay aboard ...

Wang Jie, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui before their April 2025 launch on the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft. This week the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced that the homecoming for three of its ...

The problem of orbital debris buildup is one that the entire space-faring world has been aware of for decades. Kessler Syndrome was proposed in 1978, and though there have been some efforts to deorbit ...