A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and ...

Low-orbit Earth could become inoperable for spacecraft and satellites if this complacency persists, with dire consequences.

Can we pretend that derelict satellites in the night sky are like shooting stars?

While it’s true that some space debris re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, the idea that all debris will eventually meet this fate is misleading. Only objects orbiting in low Earth ...

Set in the year 2075, the anime series takes place in a future where humanity has finally begun to colonize space. There’s ...

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 ...

The amount of space debris (old satellites and spent rocket stages) falling back to Earth has doubled over the past 10 years. A few hundred tonnes of old space junk now vaporises in the atmosphere ...

Leaders of major space agencies stated grand plans for the near future at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, ...

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 ...

You’ve probably read you should remove and dispose of insect pest-infected and diseased plant material to reduce these ...

Head of ESA Josef Aschbacher stated that his agency had garnered more than 100 signatories to its Zero Debris Charters, which sets out principles for space debris mitigation. Aschbacher also ...