CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450 ...

Falling hardware from orbit used to be the stuff of science fiction. Now, as launch rates surge and commercial aviation rebounds, researchers say the odds that a piece of space junk will cross paths ...

In 2007, the Orbital Express mission managed by DARPA demonstrated the first in-orbit refuelling and battery replacement, proving that future satellites wouldn't have to be deorbited when they ran out ...

SpaceX’s Starlink orbital internet satellites are falling out of low Earth orbit at an increasingly alarming rate, with one to two satellites now reentering Earth’s atmosphere every single day.