As of October 20, 2025, scientists are sounding the alarm about the increasing congestion in Earth’s orbit, warning that ...

Abstract: With the advancement of human exploration of near-Earth space, the number of space debris in Earth’s orbit has increased dramatically, posing serious threats to orbiting spacecraft.

WASHINGTON — Apex, a Los Angeles-based satellite manufacturing startup, is investing its own capital to demonstrate it can build and deploy interceptors in space for Golden Dome, a planned missile ...

As nations and private companies prepare to ramp up the number of missions to the Moon, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded, and scientists are warning that space may soon become too risky to manage safely. A new ...

Space is a useful place to put things like satellites that enable global communication, but there's also a lot of trash up ...

Hopefully, this new space age we're in will incentivize governments to preemptively work out some new treaties or agreements.

SpaceX is preparing for its 11th Starship launch from Starbase, Texas, as Florida residents and officials raise concerns about Space Coast operations.

The study found that, while in 2019 only 0.2% of satellites in Earth orbit were forced to perform more than 10 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to avoid that fate for future spacefarers, and has created the Zero Debris Charter as ...

Shares of Rocket Lab Corp. shot up into record territory Friday, lifted by a deal to launch satellites for Japan’s space agency. The two-launch contract with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

Welcome to Edition 8.14 of the Rocket Report! We’re now more than a week into a federal government shutdown, but there’s been little effect on the space industry. Military space operations are ...