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

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 ...

Space is no longer the final frontier it once seemed. Today, our planet's orbit resembles a cosmic junkyard where millions of debris pieces hurtle at devastating speeds, turning what should be ...

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.

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 ...

As the complexities of space travel increase, a recent incident involving Chinese astronauts stranded for an unexpected ...

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

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

A piece of space debris that hit a home in Naples, Florida, in March was a piece of the International Space Station, according to NASA. NASA had expected the debris — old and depleted nickel hydride ...

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

China's Shenzhou-21 crew of astronauts is technically currently stranded on board the Tiangong without a usable spacecraft at their disposal.