On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris Calibration Sphere into orbit around the Earth. The satellite measured just ...

Earth is surrounded by human-made debris that orbits our planet. The problem is worsening every year, and 2025 was no different. Space debris experts say nearly 130 million pieces of orbital junk are ...

Wood has entered low Earth orbit in a form rarely seen before. In December 2024, five CubeSats were released from the International Space Station, inc.

Ars has reported on one of the amendments, which would authorize NASA to take steps toward a “commercial” deep space program ...

More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated. “We’d like ...

With increased orbital traffic, accurately identifying space debris has become a pressing challenge - a challenge that one Cedarville University professor is using to test the capabilities and ...