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Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not only Earth but also space.

Charred ring of metal five metres in diameter found in Kalimantan and smaller piece discovered in Sarawak, Malaysia

Parts of a 23-tonne piece of rocket will come crashing down – somewhere – in the next few days

Debris from a Chinese rocket is set to crash to Earth some time over the next few days, with the potential for wreckage to land across a wide swathe of the globe.

Where does space begin? An experimental military program brought several pilots into a gray area. It also sparked the commercial sector's growth.

The Tiangong-1 docking announced to the world that the country was ready for a new space race.

A "meteor shower" that lit up the skies over northern Western Australia earlier this week was the wreckage of a rocket falling back to Earth.

Privateer, co-founded by Steve Wozniak, aims to make space environmentalism its business. Can it’s controversial methods really clean up space junk?

The moon is about to get walloped by a big piece of space junk

Initially, reports pointed to the SpaceX DSCOVR Falcon 9 launch vehicle impacting the Moon, but revised numbers point toward the China National Space Agency.

A geomagnetic storm triggered by a large burst of radiation from the sun has disabled at least 40 of the 49 satellites newly launched by SpaceX as part of its Starlink internet communications network, the company said. The incident was believed to mark the largest collective loss of satellites stemming…