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 ...

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 ...

It can be challenging to quantify how much of a danger space debris poses. The International Civil Aviation Organization ...

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

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 ...

China's space program decided to use Shenzhou-21's return capsule to return the Shenzhou-20 crew to Earth after their ...