Duke freshman Cooper Flagg sent a message to NBA teams and draft fans. His 42 points were the most ever by an ACC freshman and were a stark re ...

Alabama nursing student Abbie Stockard, whose boyfriend is Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler, was crowned the 97th Miss America ...

Oklahoma City dropped to 30-6, but still has a decent lead as the No. 1 seed out West with the Houston Rockets trailing at 24-12. With the two teams only meeting twice in the regular season, the ...

The Utah Jazz reportedly aren't eager to part with third-year center Walker Kessler ahead of the Feb. 6 NBA trade deadline. According to Dan Woike of the ...

Pelicans center Yves Missi and Wizards center Alexandre Sarr have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Rookies ...

SFGATE got some concern from UC Berkeley astronomer and professor Alex Filippenko, but plenty of optimism. He said the risk ...

Jay-Z's attorney Alex Spiro speaks with NBC News' Chloe Melas in an exclusive interview about pushing to get a judge to dismiss the rape lawsuit against the music mogul, as the accuser came ...

Space debris is an escalating problem, risking the onset of Kessler Syndrome, a cascade of collisions that could make Earth's orbit unusable. With thousands of tons of material in orbit and ...

The issue has also sparked discussion of a phenomenon known as Kessler syndrome. Kessler syndrome is a hypothetical scenario proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, predicting what ...

Just before Christmas, a US Air Force weather satellite shattered into 50 pieces: one of about four recent 'fragmentation' events in orbit that have experts raising the alarm about 'Kessler Syndrome.

All of this debris floating around in space could lead to a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome. Here's what to know about space junk, why it's a problem and what's being done about it.