The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and telecommunications—are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Subscribe to our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space junk has filled up so much of Earth's orbit that it's endangering satellites and astronauts. The company Kayhan Space issues ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The SWIFT constellation, shown not to scale in this illustration, will fly farther than its predecessors to improve space weather ...

So much junk is filling Earth's orbit that collision avoidance has become a busy business. "We're talking about the dead satellites, the rocket bodies, the fairings, the wrenches, the gloves, and ...