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

While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space ...

As global warming continues, researchers are warning that there will be problems for satellites in low Earth orbit.

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed ...

A spacecraft has successfully closed in on a massive chunk of metal zipping around Earth, capturing images of it—a big leap ...

Japanese ADRAS-J satellite captures historic close-up of space debris, advancing efforts to tackle orbital junk ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

(As of March 2025, over 2,000 rocket bodies are still in Earth orbit, according to the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office.) RELATED: What is space junk and why is it a problem?

Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are making the upper atmosphere thinner, decreasing its ability to pull space junk out of orbit. As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely ...

He said the space junk was not debris from a Russian rocket that was predicted to re-enter the atmosphere over international waters south-east of Tasmania between March 3 and 7. He said that had ...