Low Earth orbit, the crowded shell of space where most satellites live, is far less forgiving than it used to be. New ...

New study warns rising orbital congestion increases Satellite Collision risk as Earth’s crowded low orbit grows more fragile ...

If Earth were a hospital patient, it would likely be lying in the intensive care unit — that's the overall message from the new Planet Health Check 2025 report published by the Potsdam Institute for ...

Much about interstellar objects still eludes us, but researchers figured out what it would take for a hypothetical space rock to collide with Earth. Simulations found that potential impactors are most ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...