Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need. Nine in 10 useful satellites are ...

The report says that if space debris buildup is not controlled soon, the area surrounding our planet may become so congested that we won't be able to use certain orbits. "This chain reaction can ...

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 ...

Proponents say space-based data centres will be more secure, but sceptics say big hurdles remain. Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland.

The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at the 9th European Conference on Space Debris on 1 April 2025. Earth is ...

The Tokyo-based startup developing space debris removal technologies added that it plans to start removing "space junk" from orbit by the end of March 2028. "We want to realize a service to refuel ...

Courtesy of Astroscale Read more: Space debris removal demo set for launch Researchers studying planet K2-18b's atmosphere have detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by ...

At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall back to Earth every day, a new report reveals. And experts warn that the number of objects returning from space is set to increase, a possible ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that the previous day's explosion of a SpaceX Starship spacecraft disrupted about 240 flights, with space debris concerns requiring more ...

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on ...