There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. Collisions with spacecraft risks disrupting critical navigation and ...

The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

The problem posed by human-made junk in space worsened significantly in 2024, according to a new report by the European Space ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

Uncontrolled space debris entering Earth's atmosphere is becoming ... Analysis from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies confirmed it is a natural object, not human-made debris, ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Space junk is a very real problem. It might sound silly to think that the space around ...

The Tokyo-based startup developing space debris removal technologies added that it plans to start removing "space junk" from orbit by the end of March 2028. "We want to realize a service to refuel ...

As Earth's orbit is becoming more littered with detritus, Calgary-based scientists are working with partners in the U.S. to find a way for satellites to dodge space debris. The University of ...

Less drag therefore means extended lifetimes for space junk, which will litter sought ... in response to something more than the sun's natural, 11-year cycle. "The sky is quite literally falling ...