A new threat targeting Starlink satellites in orbit could have serious consequences for other satellites, too, affecting ...

Even in space, what goes up sometimes comes back down: spent rocket stages, defunct satellites and other bits of space debris ...

Space junk is raising safety concerns for aircraft, with a 2025 study warning of a 26% chance debris could pass through busy ...

Space debris experts say nearly 130 million pieces of orbital junk are zipping around our planet: high-speed leftovers from ...

Its crinkled gold thermal insulation, metallic structures, and the cup-shaped reflective thruster are not just aesthetic ...

As the number of satellites in orbit continues to climb, so does the risk of their remnants falling back to Earth, and into ...

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit ...

Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.

India's destruction of a satellite with a missile created hundreds of pieces of "space junk," a potentially dangerous situation that established space powers have tried to avoid for years. India has ...

The SpainSat NG-II military communications satellite suffered debris damage while transiting to its final orbital position, ...

A SpaceX executive said the move would reduce the "likelihood of collision" with other satellites and space debris.

Some problems grow quietly, almost politely, until they stop being ignorable. Space junk is one of those. It does not ...