Credit: Blue Origin Here's a round-up of space missions and cosmic events just around the bend ... ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slated to leave Earth as early as 1:11 a.m. ET Jan.

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth ... break-up events, such as ...

Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of asteroid 2024 YR4, which became infamous earlier in 2025 when astronomers calculated a slight chance of it impacting ...

The Soviet-era Kosmos 482, a Venus-bound spacecraft launched in 1972, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere between May 9 and ...

A European Space Agency report released April 1 studied the space above Earth. The report says that if space debris buildup is not controlled soon, the area surrounding our planet may become so ...

After 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS), Don Pettit, NASA's oldest serving astronaut, has finally returned to Earth. Mr Pettit marked his 70th birthday by hurtling towards ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, measuring 180 feet wide, has a 2.3% chance of impacting ... affecting space miss... Asteroid 2024 YR4, identified by NASA, has a 1-in-43 chance of colliding with Earth on ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 ...

Late last year, CSF established industry councils to focus on a set of sectors that includes launch and reentry; commercial low Earth ... skywatching events and more! Related: Space tourism ...

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, concluding a six-month mission aboard China's Tiangong space station. The crew’s landing module separated from the return vehicle ...

BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde Orbit in the Earth-moon region of space, laying a foundation for the ...