As the number of satellites in orbit continues to climb, so does the risk of their remnants falling back to Earth, and into ...

Even in space, what goes up sometimes comes back down: spent rocket stages, defunct satellites and other bits of space debris ...

Space junk is raising safety concerns for aircraft, with a 2025 study warning of a 26% chance debris could pass through busy ...

In reliability engineering, few indicators are as consistently revealing as the particles that infiltrate a lubrication ...

In the vast expanse of space, satellites and astronauts are constantly exposed to a perilous threat: space debris. These tiny particles, often traveling at speeds upwards of16,000 mph, can cause ...

As the Earth speeds towards a trail of debris left by Halley's comet, the Eta Aquariid meteor shower is due to be seen across the globe. The Eta Aquariids happen every year, between mid-April and the ...

Physicist and Engineers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division and Naval Center for Space Technology are researching a technique to ‘sweep’ Low Earth Orbit (LEO) debris from ...

ISRO’s Cosmic Dust Experiment detects interplanetary particles in orbit, revealing hidden cosmic traffic, advancing India’s ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has detected particulate matter from smoke in the air near an ongoing plastics fire in Indiana, officials said Wednesday, raising fears that cancer-causing toxins ...

Earth may experience an entirely new meteor shower this December when our planet enters a stream of the debris left around the sun by a near-Earth comet. These meteors will appear to stream from the ...