NASA astronaut Jonny Kim captured dramatic views of a hurricane from the International Space Station using a Nikon Z9 camera.

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...

An average of 200 to 400 tracked objects, also referred to as ‘space junk,’ enter Earth’s atmosphere annually.

Humans have continuously inhabited the International Space Station since November 2, 2000. NASA plans to deorbit the ISS in 2030, transitioning to commercially owned space stations. Private companies ...

When a satellite’s time ends, agencies may decide to send it further away to an altitude of 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface to the geostationary orbit, also known as the larger graveyard orbit, or ...

A piece of a suspected rocket found on fire in Western Australia highlights the growing problem of space junk – and how ...

Experts believe that a five-foot-wide piece of space debris discovered near an Australian mining town was part of a dead ...

That leftover clutter might not sound like a big deal, but it’s starting to raise real concerns among scientists and space ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration furloughed more than 15,000 employees nationwide, with another 3,000 working without pay following the Wednesday morning shutdown of the federal ...

Suspected debris from China’s Long March rocket crashed in Tibet’s Mangra County, causing a fire and toxic orange smoke, ...

The Office of Space Commerce, an office of about 50 people, exists within the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. To paraphrase its mission statement, its chief ...