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 ...

Thousands of satellites are being launched into space at low Earth orbit, joining hundreds of thousands of pieces of space ...

Portal Space Systems is partnering with Paladin Space on a commercial service that would round up and dispose of orbital debris.

Dots representing tracked bits of space junk encircle the planet. Most of these objects are concentrated in low Earth orbit — the region of space within 1,200 miles of the Earth's surface. - NASA ODPO ...

Low Earth orbit no longer feels distant or empty. On a clear November night, a Falcon 9 rose from Cape Canaveral and released 29 Starlink satellites into a busy band of sky about 340 miles up. The ...

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about it Jettisoned junk A pallet of old batteries released into space from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three Chinese astronauts have been temporarily stranded in space after the vehicle they were meant to travel aboard back to Earth ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, unless, of course, you're talking about space debris, since it's too tough to acquire without a shuttle or a spaceship. That's a shame because space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dots representing tracked bits of space junk encircle the planet. Most of these objects are concentrated in low Earth orbit — the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...