Uncontrolled space debris reentries are of growing concern for air traffic, as SpaceX's recent Starship Flight 7 showed.
A clearing in the clouds Tuesday night allowed people in West Michigan to catch a stunning display overhead as space debris ...
A satellite, initially identified as Starlink-5693, reentered Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday, causing a dazzling display visible ...
NASA estimates that there are nearly 6,000 tons of space junk in low Earth orbit, moving around our planet at speeds up to 18 ...
Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...
Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...
"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." ...
The risk from space debris is compounded by the growing congestion from operational satellites in low-Earth orbit, ...
Space advertising is not currently a problem, but the enterprise needs to be smothered before it has a chance to grow, ...
Artwork showing two of the potential dangers of low-Earth orbit: space debris and solar flares. | Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images An international group of researchers is ...
"For space objects which fail to de-orbit themselves for whatever reason ... though they claim that it was at such a low altitude that the debris would quickly burn up in Earth's atmosphere. However, ...