In late 2025, scientists reported that for the first time, they were able to detect concentrations of plastic pollution on land using NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) ...

A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth’s radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday. The roughly 1,323-pound spacecraft, known as the Van Allen ...

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was supposed to last for two years, but its career surprisingly lasted much longer. In its 22-year journey, Swift observed more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts and 1, ...

NASA scientists are beginning to examine ocean trash from a new perspective, not from ships or beaches, but from orbit. The research follows a recent discovery that space-based sensors can detect ...

To date, close to 30,000 satellites have been launched into Earth's orbit, leading to mounting concerns over the debris created when they collide. In a new analysis posted to the preprint server arXiv ...

NASA has successfully tested a system that allows satellites to navigate without GPS by using other spacecraft and debris as landmarks in orbit. In just three days, FALCON also improved the known ...

This week, a Soviet-era weather satellite broke apart in low-Earth orbit, creating tens of new pieces of debris that could threaten other spacecraft. This information comes from LeoLabs, a company ...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...

Six mysterious metal spheres that washed ashore last weekend at Forrest Beach in northern Queensland, Australia, are “suspected space debris,” the Australian Space Agency announced Monday on social ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Van Allen Probe A and Van Allen Probe B were designed to fly through and study Earth's radiation belts. (NASA) A defunct ...