The administration cited "falling space debris" shortly after the explosion as the reason for halting flights, with delays lasting for up to 45 minutes. In a statement on the explosion ...

Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

The threat of an asteroid hitting Earth is always there, but the danger of falling space junk is growing into a crisis.

The approximately eight-minute-long film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" attempts to answer its conjecture with supportive statistics and orbital projections. For instance, it discusses how the ...

While all spacecraft are at risk of colliding with space junk, environmental monitoring satellites may be in the most immediate danger. Satellites like the Copernicus Sentinels provide real-time ...

Lover of all things sports, she got her degree from ... reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers calculated that available ...