A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body sped toward each other in space this week, but avoided a catastrophic crash on Thursday night. LeoLabs, a company that uses radar to ...

Rocket bodies are a particular hazard because of their immense bulk. The one in the new image came from Japan's H-IIA launch vehicle, which lofted a CO2-measuring spacecraft called Gosat ...

So much junk is filling Earth's orbit that collision avoidance has become a busy business. "We're talking about the dead satellites, the rocket bodies, the fairings, the wrenches, the gloves, and ...

Body Rocket debuts a prototype road bike version of their real-time aerodynamic drag force measurement system. This is their ...

Officials with the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia have reported that a large metallic ring fell from the sky on Dec. 30 , crashing "red-hot" into Mukuku village, in Makueni county – in ...

Video caption, WATCH: Learn how large unused rocket bodies in space have the potential to break into thousands of pieces Space junk is sometimes called space debris. It could be bits of an old ...

It is China's first medium-lift launch vehicle with a stainless steel rocket body that is powered by liquid oxygen-methane engines and recoverable after ocean splashdown. The test involved full ...

So much junk is filling Earth's orbit that collision avoidance has become a busy business. "We're talking about the dead satellites, the rocket bodies, the fairings, the wrenches, the gloves, and ...

India launched its first space docking mission on Monday, on an Indian-made rocket, in an attempt to become the fourth ...