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 ...

When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be threatening Britain within days.

As global numbers of space launches relentlessly skyrocket, so, too, does the amount of dangerous space debris that reenters the atmosphere and falls back to Earth, raising the odds that, sooner or ...

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 lost ...

As orbits become more crowded and littered with debris, the US operator is having to move its devices to dodge damage.

Picture this. You're scrolling through your phone, checking the weather, ordering dinner, maybe catching up on a video call with family halfway across the world. Every single one of those actions ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most productive scientific observatories ever launched, is in a gradual but inevitable downward spiral towards Earth due to atmospheric drag acting on its ...