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

Whatever happens, we need a space junk cleanup solution and we need it sooner rather than later, or we risk catastrophic consequences.

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

PERSEI Space, a startup supported by the European Space Agency and UC3M, is developing a breakthrough solution to tackle ...

Sustainability in space and the fight against the accumulation of waste produced in Earth orbit are the objectives pursued by ...

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. If just one piece collides with a spacecraft, it can disrupt critical navigation systems. The European Space Agency is calling for urgent ...

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 quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem These events are not isolated. Across the world, from Texas to Saudi Arabia, from Cape Town to the Amazon rainforest, objects launched into low ...

Space surveillance networks, like the U.S. Space Force, are currently tracking nearly 40,000 pieces of debris, some as large ... focused on exploring equitable solutions to climate change.

We know it’s a problem, and many are working on solutions that could help the junk fall back to Earth. Now, though, a controversial new paper warns that falling space junk could actually weaken ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...

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 ...