More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. Collisions with spacecraft risks disrupting critical navigation and ...

There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

A new short film from the European Space Agency (ESA) has reignited debate about the escalating hazards posed by space debris ...

Collisions are a growing risk as space gets more crowded, and greenhouse gas emissions could make things worse. Greenhouse ...

The problem posed by human-made junk in space worsened significantly in 2024, according to a new report by the European Space ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be ...

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed ...

The space report has revealed that there are more than 1.2 million objects larger than 1 cm in size - they are capable of causing catastrophic damage to existing satellites and the International Space ...

While some space objects burn up completely in the ... of its speed), the study estimates that the likelihood of debris colliding with a plane is roughly 1 in 430,000 each year.

Richard Jacklin, Commercial Lead at Plextek, discusses the next frontier in space debris detection - mmWave radar technology.