CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon is about to get walloped by a big piece of space junk. The leftover rocket will slam into the far side of the moon Friday. Experts think it is from a China launch ...
A dead satellite can become a high-speed hazard in an orbit that is already packed with working spacecraft. That risk is why ...
Specifically flagged by the UNEP are air pollution from launch emissions, spacecraft emissions in the stratosphere, as well ...
Space junk is raising safety concerns for aircraft, with a 2025 study warning of a 26% chance debris could pass through busy ...
Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...