Intact satellites or rocket bodies are now re-entering the atmosphere on average more than three times a day. Even without ...

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 ...

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

(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?

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 ...

The volume of retired satellites, broken-up rocket bodies and other space junk in orbit continues to increase. According to an estimate by the European Space Agency, there are 40,500 pieces of ...

When the upper atmosphere becomes thinner, satellites and old space junk encounter less drag as ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earth’s orbit is absolutely littered with space junk, and every new rocket we send ...

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 ...