If an object were to break into the Earth's atmosphere, it's likely to be one of two things: space junk or a rare meteorite.

Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is on the opposite side of the sun from Earth - but several spacecraft are in the perfect position to ...

Space is a vast and infinitely expansive area with many things we know little about. If we look at how our Solar System moves ...

A large chunk of burning detritus discovered in the Pilbara desert of Western Australia appears to be space junk that reentered Earth's atmosphere, the Western Australia Police Force has announced.

A team of astronomers have conducted a study that has lifted the veil on a nearly 100 year mystery that explains an odd dark ...

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 ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

Witnesses described an intensely bright object racing across the sky from the southwest to the northeast, leaving behind a ...