Researchers and government agencies are turning to artificial intelligence to solve one of spaceflight’s fastest-growing problems: tracking debris in the vast stretch between Earth and the Moon. With ...

NASA has verified that a small asteroid, roughly the size of a machine, is making a close approach to Earth on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. Scientists say the asteroid is not a danger to Earth. They ...

The space rock is expected to make its closest approach at around 848,000 miles from the Earth, according to NASA.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms. Scientists ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, announced the discovery of something truly spectacular: a mysterious object that appeared to ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—poses a risk to humans when it falls to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

In a visualization by the space tracking company ExoAnalytic, China’s Shijian-21 satellite is seen docking with Compass G2, a defunct Chinese satellite in geostationary Earth orbit. Credit: ...

Chris Sheffield, laboratory technician for the Air Force Institute of Technology Center for Space Research and Assurance, conducts testing on AFIT’s Space Object Self-Tracker. The SOS is a ...

Space Force has awarded 14 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $1.8 billion contract vehicle to build satellites and other systems for use in space domain awareness efforts. The Andromeda ...