There is a lot of debris in orbit around Earth that sooner or later we will have to contrive a means to go get.

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 ...

In a report, the European Space Agency said around 1,200 pieces of rocket and satellite debris fell back to Earth last year. And as 54,000 space junk pieces larger than 10cm remain floating around ...

Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could threaten these missions and create safety hazards for astronauts.

To clean up hazardous space debris orbiting the Earth, a group of students that includes Jackie Edwards ’25 is developing ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects, ...

In a report, the European Space Agency said around 1,200 pieces of rocket and satellite debris fell back to Earth last year. And as 54,000 space junk pieces larger than 10cm remain floating around the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 ...

Credit: ClearSpace/YouTube PUAKO, Hawaii — ClearSpace completed the second phase of the UK Space Agency’s Active Debris Removal (ADR) mission, by testing and refining technology to remove ...