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

As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there?

“This piece does not belong to an element from a European launcher operated by Arianespace.” John Crassidis at New York’s SUNY, which works with Nasa on space debris, endorsed the assessment ...

The researchers — led by experts from NASA's Jet Propulsion ... Related: How often does the International Space Station have to dodge space debris? Breaking space news, the latest updates ...

Analysis of 2024 PT5's orbit showed it wasn't an errant piece of space junk. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins ...

Space debris, or space junk, is any man-made object that continues to orbit Earth but no longer serves a useful purpose, according to NASA. Space junk remains in orbit until it re-enters the ...

According to space ... The NASA Orbital Debris Program in Houston, Texas works on mitigating the debris problem in space. It exists to reduce orbital debris and designs equipment to track and ...

In the United States, a Florida family sought compensation from Nasa after space debris collided with their home last year, reported the BBC. Speaking to Wink-TV, Alejandro Otero said the piece of ...

but he said this is the first time he’s aware of its use for tracking space debris. Fernando first tested the idea to track the controlled reentry of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September ...

Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. (Credit: NASA) According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are ...