About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need. Nine in 10 useful satellites are ...

Since Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster in space in 2018, cars made on Earth by humans have made their entrance onto the intergalactic stage. For all you alien readers out there, we created this ...

According to the European Space Agency, as of August 2021, there are around 29,210 pieces of tracked debris, but the actual number of objects larger than 1mm may exceed 128 million.

Space debris surrounds the Earth so Nationalworld spoke to an expert at the UK Space Agency to see what sustainable ways ...

The project is intended to help understand how exactly satellites break apart so that scientists can learn how to prevent the creation of more space debris. Space junk is becoming a bigger problem ...

Addressing the responsible way to dispose of space debris has become a major concern for countries and companies in space. Most recently, U.S. Space Command called out Russia after a ...

"We were able to reduce the weight by as much as 40% and still have it pass the tests for orbital debris needs." A next-generation space debris protection material is readying for a test trip to ...

Though space debris will become an even bigger problem at these lower altitudes as the lower the orbit, the more crowded it gets. Starlink collision risk SpaceX received additional backlash in ...

SpaceX's reusable rocket tech could reduce 'space junk' SpaceX's rocket-catching achievement is a step towards creating a reusable launch system, and reducing its contribution to space junk.

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"I’ll applaud SpaceX for developing reusable rockets," University of Texas professor of aerospace engineering and space tracker Moriba Jah told Wired. "But we don’t have reusable satellites.