A new paper has taken a look at the orbits of megaconstellations around Earth, and found that we may be tiptoeing dangerously ...

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded with broken satellites and leftover rocket parts. Researchers say the solution is to build ...

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour.

While space explorations are important, the missions do result in pollution. However, experts might have a solution for this ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed and tested a micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) detection and characterization system that detects when a satellite or spacecraft experiences an ...

A computer generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The ...

Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. The ...

Three Chinese astronauts have been temporarily stranded in space after the vehicle they were meant to travel aboard back to Earth was hit by space debris. Just how much damage the vehicle sustained ...

Orbita, co-founded by Minh Nguyen and John Avera, developed an AI-powered CubeSat constellation to detect sub-centimeter ...

If you thought asteroids, aliens or gamma rays were the only cosmic threats to our planet, you’re overlooking one of our closest culprits: Space debris. NASA defines space debris as “any human-made ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded junkyard, packed with dead satellites ...