The 2013 movie Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, is the tale of a domino of space disasters triggered by ...

Ukraine has targeted an explosives manufacturer in Russia, as well as a storage warehouse at a military airfield in the Lipetsk region, according to a statement from the Ukrainian General Staff.

Boeing's communications satellite, iS-33e, has been confirmed as a "total loss," impacting customers in Europe, Africa, and ...

Researchers from the orbital mapping firm LeoLabs are raising alarm bells about the dangerous amount of space junk littering ...

But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

14) at the 2024 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here. Head of ESA Josef Aschbacher stated that his agency had garnered more than 100 signatories to its Zero Debris Charters, which sets out ...

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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 ...