Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

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 ...

Four space station Crew 11 fliers splashed down off the Southern California coast at 3:41 a.m. ET, closing out a 167-day stay ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit after problems with an ...

Officials at NASA and SpaceX have announced that they will return four astronauts from the International Space Station to ...

The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 when an uncrewed Shenzhou ...