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

The space debris problem won't solve itself. We've been kicking the can down the road for years as we continue launching more rockets and payloads into space. In the last couple of years, ...

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk, which pose a constant threat to future space exploration ...

An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.

A space physics expert has sounded the alarm over the dangers of space junk orbiting Earth at speeds of 18,000mph, warning that it could pose a serious threat to life on our planet. Dr Ian ...

Here’s how it works. A massive piece of space junk recently smashed into a village in Kenya. The 1,100-pound (500 kilograms) ring of metal likely came from a rocket, though its exact origins are ...

Past examples of man-made human space debris hitting Earth include part of a SpaceX Dragon capsule landing on an Australian sheep farm in 2022. “Space junk is a growing problem, and while this ...

The issue of space junk has risen in tandem with increased spatial traffic. Kenya Space Agency (KSA) said the object, a metallic ring roughly 8 feet in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds ...

The object turned out to be space debris — junk left over from six decades of space exploration and a growing number of commercial launches, the Kenya Space Agency said Wednesday. It identified ...

As satellites reach the ends of their missions, they turn into dangerous debris ... with plastic pollution. This hard-to-solve ecological problem resembles the growing issue of space debris.