Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

That pace shows no sign of slowing down. 2025 is expected to see a record-breaking number of launches, as a new international ...

PERSEI Space, a startup supported by the European Space Agency and UC3M, is developing a breakthrough solution to tackle ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

Russia holds the record for the number of objects currently contributing to space junk, with approximately 6,500 objects ...

Space junk is a very real problem ... the docking spacecraft by tracking it down and connecting to it using magnetic plates. The spacecraft will perform several of these “catch-and-release ...

Sustainability in space and the fight against the accumulation of waste produced in Earth orbit are the objectives pursued by PERSEI Space, a company whose partners include two researchers from ...

If waste disposal is a major environmental challenge across the world, rapid accumulation of junk in outer space is also a concern, going by the 2025 Space Environment Report from the European ...

In magnetic reconnection, adjacent magnetic field lines break and snap together to form new lines. This process converts ...

At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall back to Earth every day, a new report reveals. And experts warn that the number of objects returning from space is set to increase, a possible ...