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

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

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

World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more ...

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

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

Typically, the upper atmosphere slowly pulls space debris out of Earth's lower orbit. But the cooling and contracting effect is causing less drag in the thermosphere, causing the space junk to ...

By the year 2100, some parts of Earth orbit may have upwards of 66% less carrying capacity for satellites, according to a new ...

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

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the ...

When the upper atmosphere becomes thinner, satellites and old space junk encounter less drag as ... into the problem and estimated the knock-on effects of this reduced drag on safety of orbital ...

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 ...