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

Did you see it? Some in the western suburbs of Chicago Tuesday, including Yorkville and Wadsworth, reported seeing objects ...

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

The company claims that this is a safe method of dealing with orbital junk because it avoids any physical contact with other objects, many of which are moving at some 7.5 km per second ...

Because this space junk poses serious risk to astronauts and ... creating incentives for companies to minimize orbital debris and stimulating collective scientific cooperation.

If you want to see the kind of damage orbital debris could inflict on the International Space Station, watch the movie Gravity. Well, "every once in a while, a piece of space junk hurtles through ...

Above the Earth’s surface there are many orbital planes and no pesky oceans to prevent millimeter and centimeter-sized cars from being spaced out there. This gives a rough idea of just how ...

Also called space debris, space junk is comprised of non-operational satellites and ... astronauts' lost tool bags can combine with old satellites to create a halo of orbital debris that lasts for ...

This rapid increase in satellites that no longer serve a purpose will require new methods to deal with them - most commonly through other satellites known as on-orbit servicers (OOSs). Depending on ...