While on a flight back from spring break Thursday night, a Wisconsin college student captured a close-up view of falling debris from a failed SpaceX Starship rocket launch. University of Wisconsin ...

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft exploded Thursday during a flight test, raining fiery debris across the Florida sky. It was the second explosion this year for the massive, 400-foot spacecraft.

The upper portion of SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded once again minutes into its Thursday flight test, creating a cascade of fiery debris visible from Florida to the Caribbean.

It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially shrinking the usable space for satellite in low Earth orbit, according to a new MIT study. Researchers have calculated ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...

Fortunately, the risk of space debris is not an everyday occurrence, but it is becoming a more common event than you might think. In the first two and a half months of 2025, there were at least ...