Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Astronomers have spent the last two decades warily eyeing the accumulation of space debris. Now, it appears some of their worst predictions have ...

As Dr. Nilton Renno at the University of Michigan explains it, a lot of space junk is moving at “the order of 10 km/s (~22,000 mph), much faster than a rifle bullet, for example... therefore a ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

We’ve all heard of space debris that sometimes falls back to Earth. But the next hunk of space junk set to crash-land on our planet is a little bigger than just “debris.” A Kosmos 482 ...

Because of this, any current and future orbital structures must be designed to endure the occasional pummeling from tiny meteorites and space junk traveling at incredibly fast speeds. Sierra Space ...

Or, in other words, where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? Last month, a team of aerospace engineers at MIT released their findings from a research ...

A large-aperture auto-tracking optical telescope and a new astronomical observation pod were installed to enhance space debris threat warnings and support global space governance. Currently ...