Chances of space junk falling and killing somebody are higher ... Alejandro Otero recounted to Wink-TV how a piece of debris, which turned out to be part of a stanchion used for attaching ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report ...

Or, in other words, where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? Last month, a team of aerospace engineers at MIT released their findings from a research ...

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean enough to ...

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 ...

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed to inspect it from a distance of about 15 meters. The Tokyo-based ...

At its annual space debris conference, ESA called for swift action to clean up human-made junk — usually fragments of spacecraft or decommissioned satellites. ESA has established a Zero Debris ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites over the next 100 years." ...

The problem posed by human-made junk in space worsened significantly in 2024, according to a new report by the European Space Agency (ESA). The report follows a Chinese launch last August that ...

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean ...