That pace shows no sign of slowing down. 2025 is expected to see a record-breaking number of launches, as a new international ...

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 ...

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 ...

Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

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

Astroscale and Orbit Fab are teaming up to refuel U.S. Space Force satellites in geostationary orbit high above Earth, ...

Space debris rained down on Saskatchewan farmland twice in 2024, and no one seems to know why the junk didn't burn up in the ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

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

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 ...

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 ...