Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the launch “a significant stride in India’s space sector,” noting it strengthens the country’s commercial launch presence and heavy-lift capability.

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies and astronauts. This debris includes large pieces, such as spent rocket ...

Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.

Spacecraft set to burn up in a few weeks, but it could have been worse As if to underscore the need to avoid the Kessler Syndrome, a scenario in which cascading debris can make some orbits difficult ...

The concept would not rely on traditional single-target interceptors but instead would attempt to flood Starlink's operating altitudes with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets. By ...

SpaceX reportedly informed the FAA about the mishap after the agency had already activated debris response areas.

On Wednesday (Dec. 17), this particular Starlink suffered an anomaly that caused a loss of communication with the ground and an unscheduled venting of its propulsion tank. The satellite is now ...

From orchestrating a groundbreaking in-orbit emergency rescue to launching its first asteroid mission and making a wealth of ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hailed the company's satellite internet service provider, Starlink, which recently announced it had ...

The intelligence findings are alarming, but some space security experts aren’t convinced Russia would take such a misguided risk.

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

The Air Force’s ASM-135 missile test in 1985 was the first kinetic destruction of a satellite in orbit. It would not be the last.