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 ...

A few hundred tonnes of old space junk now vaporises in the atmosphere every year. The International Telecommunications Union claims that the applications for satellite spectrum have already ...

Many thought it was a meteor shower or a comet - however experts say it was a piece of space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere, which had come from a Chinese rocket involved in a recent space ...

There are currently tens of thousands of known pieces of space junk orbiting Earth. While there are some larger pieces, like ...

Despite that, scientists say that the amount of space junk pollution around our planet could poison the upper atmosphere and have a lasting impact on the climate. Researchers are constantly ...

A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it. The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m ...

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

So what is space debris? Space debris or space junk is basically discarded material from launch vehicles like rockets or parts of spacecraft that are left to roam around in space. Since this junk ...

AFP PHOTO / ESA / HO —-RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE—- (Photo by ESA / AFP) (Photo by -/ESA/AFP via Getty Images) Space junk, the debris collected in orbit since space exploration began ...

The moon, space sustainability, asteroids and more are being discussed at a major conference in Milan. MILAN — Leaders of major space agencies stated grand plans for the near future at a major ...

Space junk is becoming a bigger problem as we send more satellites into orbit, but there are efforts to try and address it. This mission is part of the ESA’s Zero Debris Charter initiative to ...