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

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

Our exploitation and exploration of space has left 13,000 tonnes of junk orbiting Earth. Defunct craft and larger pieces of debris are also colliding, adding to the millions of smaller fragments which ...

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

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

As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.

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 ...

A clearing in the clouds Tuesday night allowed people in West Michigan to catch a stunning display overhead as space debris ...

There are billions of pieces of space junk orbiting Earth, and more than 25,000 of those ... constellation spacecraft), adapted for different orbital regions (e.g., LEO, MEO, GEO), for different ...

Roman explained the "space junk" is from things like non-functioning ... fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft, which is a dramatic ...