There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. Collisions with spacecraft risks disrupting critical navigation and ...

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

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at ...

Earth’s orbit is absolutely littered with space junk, and every new rocket we send ... radiation that the Sun shoots our way, and all around it might not be a great thing. This new paper ...

Alizee Zimmermann and her husband were rinsing off their dive gear on a relatively muggy January evening when the sky ...

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

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