Uncontrolled space debris reentries are of growing concern. The prospect of leftovers from space hotfooting into the Earth's ...

Space debris is a real hazard to life on Earth, a physics expert has warned, highlighting the dangers of falling space junk ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.

This is indicative of burning up space debris from some type of space “junk” in low Earth’s orbit. If it were a meteor shower, we would typically see one long streak rather than multiple ...

Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space ...

As the data came in, a bright fireball flying overhead revealed the source: A large piece of space junk burning up as it fell to Earth ... of rocket bodies are in orbit. Many of these objects ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit ... debris fragments. "Adding a Sustainable Development Goal [SDG] specifically for space ...

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