Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

Here, among the arid desert sands of Las Cruces, Sierra Space wanted to see in real-time how its space station handled ...

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

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report ...

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 ...

China’s megaconstellation launches spark debris concerns; commercial space expands; Lightyear Explorer raises funds; key ...

The ESA is calling for urgent action.Every year, one satellite is destroyed by a space junk collision. Combined with increasing frequency of commercial space launches, which now account for most ...

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 ...

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

If we don't have that force, then we would have these things in space forever, and that is catastrophic to the environment. We have no way to remove the old junk so that we can have stuff to do in ...

Some of the new junk consists of satellites that naturally ... to the point where we are having a real effect on the environment both in space and in the upper atmosphere," astrophysicist Jonathan ...