At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This ...

The last two SpaceX test flights both exploded over the Caribbean, causing debris to land on a number of islands.

Scientists have warned that greenhouse gas emissions will result in less space junk being burned up – and more debris ...

Some of the larger debris in orbit But since the 1960’s or so, the area of space ... “garbage truck” missions. In the coming years, we may see similar spacecraft that rove around Low Earth ...

INCREDIBLE footage shows wreckage from space hurtling towards the Earth before part of it crashes into a garden in Poland. The burning debris came from Elon Musk's Falcon 9 space rocket that was ...

Demonstrate how we could remove space debris that's cluttering ... a million chunks of space trash flying around our planet, and most of it is concentrated in low earth orbit, where it whips ...

But this week’s two space debris-related events in the Bahamas and Europe point to how successful rocket launches can also leave their mark on Earth. They also highlight how the rise in the ...

Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland. The flaming ball was possibly the remains of a rocket booster, an astronomer says. The Kenyan ...