Our future lies among the stars, and many challenges must be overcome to reach them. One of those challenges is making sure our ships don’t crash into our own garbage littering orbit.

Despite its reputation, outer space is far from empty, and the region around our planet is particularly riddled with space ...

Many of the small town's residents reported seeing a bright flash in the middle of the night just before the loud bang.

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean enough to ...

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. If just one piece collides with a spacecraft, it can disrupt ...

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

these fragments collide with one another, begetting more space junk. To avoid debris in their paths, every operational ESA satellite has to perform twice as many avoidance maneuvers as required 10 ...

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 ...

As of 2021, there were more than 4,000 active satellites in orbit, with estimates of 600,000 pieces of space junk ranging from 1–10 centimetres in size 6. On average, one satellite is destroyed ...

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