Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025.

The new study found there's a 26% chance the threat of space junk could shut down a crowded airspace in Europe, Asia or North ...

Large, uncontrolled space junk reentering Earth's atmosphere has the increasing potential to disrupt air travel, if affected ...

The call today is for binding rules to protect the orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars from space debris contamination. Initiatives need to be formulated for effective, sustainable, and equitable ...

A new study from researchers at UBC found that the chance of debris entering air space around major cities is as high as 26 per cent each year.

The size of a large coffee table, it was one of several pieces of space junk that fell on population centres last year. SpaceX via NASA B.C. researchers have found there is a 26 per cent chance ...

The experimental grippers demonstrated autonomous detection and capture techniques that may be used to remove space debris and service ... was designed and built at NASA's Ames Research Center ...

You might think the odds of a piece of space junk crashing down to Planet Earth and hitting you are incredibly small - or ...