A collision would be a very bad thing indeed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The odds of a space-junk crash this evening (Jan.

We'll see a lot more of these close calls in the coming years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Satellite operators, and everyone ...

Let's hope that today's close encounter of two old pieces of space junk is just a near miss as predicted, because a smashup would be pretty messy. Two long-dead satellites — the Infrared Astronomical ...

Two defunct satellites expected to come within a few feet apart and possibly collide instead sped past each other in opposite orbits Wednesday. Experts initially warned the satellites, an Infrared ...

It's easy to imagine the area around Earth being so incredibly large that there's no way we could ever clog it with manmade debris. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Humans have ...

Two inactive satellites orbiting Earth may collide high above Pittsburgh tonight at 6:39 p.m. EST. The odds of a collision, recently pegged at 1 in 100, now sit at 1 in 20, according to LeoLabs, a ...

LeoLabs offers customers a view of potential collisions, like this one showing NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite narrowly avoiding a collision with the U.S. Air Force Gravity Gradient ...

Close encounters of a third kind may not be as exciting as they sound. It was recently reported that two American defunct satellites in low Earth orbit could potentially crash into each other this ...