Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

On-Orbit Assembly and Servicing: Robotic arms and free-flying systems streamlining the construction and maintenance of orbital platforms and spacecraft ... Addressing the space junk problem is ...

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

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

Ars Technica has mentioned SpinLaunch, the company that literally wants to yeet satellites into space, in previous Rocket ...

Rocket start-up SpinLaunch wants to catapult hundreds of flattened "microsatellites" into space at once, using a cannon-like ...

“How on Earth do you count them? I can barely keep up with cleaning and laundry let alone do this. Adding in something else to do fills me with dread. Try as I do, I just cannot get most guests ...

Space-based weaponry has the potential to seriously expand that by encouraging the destruction of large, complicated orbital satellites. As debris continues to build up in orbit, Kessler Syndrome ...