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? Is the ...

Back in 1979, Houston became home to a program that searched for ways to create less debris in space and track and remove existing debris. More than four decades later, NASA has called the growing ...

Spacefaring countries have for decades been sending thousands upon thousands of satellites and other objects into orbit, where they have become an integral component of modern society. From ...