Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High above the surface of our blue and green planet, millions of pieces of space debris zoom through Earth’s orbit at thousands of ...

TechCrunch was proud to host The Aerospace Corporation at Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco. Here’s an overview of their Breakout session. Space is big, and working in space is difficult. From the ...

Earth's space junk problem isn't just growing—it's accelerating. According to the European Space Agency's latest Space Environment Report, 2024 saw some of the largest debris-generating events in ...

Human-made debris left behind in outer space is a growing problem down on Earth From defunct satellites to rocket parts, debris from everything humans have launched into space since the 1950s is ...

Last November, the International Space Station (ISS) had to dodge space junk again. The ISS had to fire its thrusters to avoid a collision with space junk in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The ISS fired its ...

The Space Trash Signs project has created "constellations" made of defunct satellites and old rocket parts to draw attention to the worsening space debris problem. When you purchase through links on ...

Could the same computer algorithms that teach autonomous cars to drive safely help identify nearby asteroids or discover life in the universe? NASA scientists are trying to figure that out by ...

SpaceX and the US Space Force thought they were ready to launch the military’s mysterious X-37B spaceplane this week, but ground teams in Florida need to roll the Falcon Heavy rocket back into its ...

Was it Robert Heinlein, author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, who said that “everything was theoretically impossible till it was done”? Whoever it was, thinkers and ...

SpaceX employees turned company builders, the largest ever. What they learned, how they’re applying it, and the future ...