Space is a contested area. World powers and private corporations alike are launching more and more rockets and satellites ...

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I live in a fairly small home, but the most compact space of all is the kitchen. It's so small that there isn't enough room ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...

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

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

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

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 Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...

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 junk. A group of researchers from the University of British Columbia ...

Only around 1,950 of these satellites remain operational while the rest have become space debris. These now-defunct satellites are joined by thousands of bits of debris, which are collectively ...