Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

A large metallic ring from space crash-landed in Kenya on New Year's Day. Officials want to determine its origins and hold the owner accountable.

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 ...

Proponents say space-based data centres will be more secure, but sceptics say big hurdles remain. Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland.

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 approximately eight-minute-long film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" attempts to answer its conjecture with supportive statistics and orbital projections. For instance, it discusses how the ...

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

Imagine how many snacks you would need to pack. Space junk (also known as space debris or space pollution) is any man-made object orbiting Earth that no longer serves a useful purpose. Scientists ...

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on ...