High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour.

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...

Google’s Project Suncatcher would need sophisticated collision avoidance capabilities to navigate a junk-filled landscape.

Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. The ...

We’re running against the clock here,” Tiago Soares, the lead engineer of the Clean Space office at ESA, warned, as yet ...

India has about 140 satellites in orbit as of December 2025, of which 57 are completely operational and 83 non-functional but ...

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...

More than 45,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 cm are orbiting Earth. From 2035, it’s thought the space jukn could cause a ...

China's space agency has announced it will return a damaged spacecraft docked on Tiangong space station to Earth without crew ...

Just as you probably avoid movies like Alive on a flight, the ISS crew likely skip these movies in space. The post The ISS ...

News that a window on a spaceship has cracked might not seem particularly newsworthy unless the window in question is part of ...