CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash ...

and limiting so-called space junk in Earth orbit could help to stop space debris orbiting the moon and Mars. A Perspective piece has been published in the journal Frontiers in Space Technologies.

Dust and rocks residing on the surface of the moon take a beating in space. Without a protective magnetosphere and atmosphere ...

While part of the seventh test launch of the super heavy-lift rocket was a success, stress on the propulsion system led to ...

The impact occurred during a period of heavy bombardment in the inner solar system by space ... on the moon for the first time since the Apollo landings of the 1970s. "Because debris from the ...

Many space people are worried about a space junk catastrophe called the Kessler Syndrome. Lower orbits reduce the risk of the ...

Space junk has been a concern for a while ... Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander carried 151 Moon Boxes into space last year, as well as the ashes of dozens of some 70 people.

"The lunar landscape is dramatic," David Kring, a geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute of the Universities Space ... the moon's surface to calculate the direction and speed of debris ...

Since Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster in space in 2018, cars made on Earth by humans have made their entrance onto the intergalactic stage. For all you alien readers out there, we created this ...