This latest motor breakup incident is adding to the mounting problem of space debris, or space junk, caught in Earth’s orbit. “When I saw this, I was massively unsurprised,” he said.

NASA had a big year in 2018 with several bold new missions to study various features of our Solar System, and one of the most exciting was the launch of the Parker Solar Probe which will study the ...

Once it enters into its orbit around the sun on Christmas Eve, Parker—which is around the size of a small car—is estimated to be traveling at around 430,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Another cloud of Russian space debris has bloomed in orbit. An Earth-orbiting object cataloged as #32398 broke up on April 15, the U.S. Space Force's 18th Space Defense Squadron tweeted on Tuesday ...

Object #32398 was an ullage motor from a space tug that helped deliver three Russian GLONASS satellites to orbit in 2007, according to journalist and author Anatoly Zak, who runs RussianSpaceWeb ...

Once it enters into its orbit around the sun on Christmas Eve, Parker—which is around the size of a small car—is estimated to be traveling at around 430,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

In 2018, NASA launched a mission to do something that scientists have never done before. The Parker Solar Probe mission is truly the first of… ...