Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

Scientists say defunct satellites and spent rocket stages returning to Earth, from the thousands launched every year, can be ...

Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

Alizee Zimmermann and her husband were rinsing off their dive gear on a relatively muggy January evening when the sky ...

Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at ...