At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall to Earth every day, a new report reveals. Some experts think it's a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

Space junk is the colloquial name given to what NASA terms "orbital debris" and is officially defined as "all man-made ...

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 ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense. A photo ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites over the next 100 years." Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Space junk is a very real problem. It might sound silly to think that the space around ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earth’s orbit is absolutely littered with space junk, and every new rocket we send ...

"We could process debris at that hub, for example, and turn aluminum into aluminum powder that could be used for spacecraft fuel." "Even though all of outer space might be infinite, where we put ...