Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

In recent years, outer space has started to resemble a crowded highway during rush hour. According to the European Space ...

It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ...

The UK has launched a £75.6 million bid to build a spaceship to clear space debris, including satellites.

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

The object was likely either a meteor or space junk, with most sightings of the streak of light and fireball coming from ...

In 2020, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to "purchase a unique service: the ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...