New research is sounding the alarm that rocket debris in space could increasingly pose a threat to aircraft. As the quest to ...

Space junk originates from everything that is launched by human access to outer space ... There are probably about 50,000 pieces of space junk the size of a softball or larger floating near Earth, ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

What’s more, space weather can change orbital trajectories — so it’s difficult to predict exactly how and where debris is traveling, according to Dr. Thomas Berger, director of the ...

Space junk is a problem that just won’t go away, and it keeps getting worse. ... The types of junk orbiting Earth can vary greatly in size. From defunct, ...

There are currently around 40,000 pieces of space debris objects with a size of more than ten centimetres orbiting the Earth; there are around 1 million pieces one centimetre or larger.

The U.S. government is now trying to develop a real-time monitoring capability for the millions of ultrasmall pieces of space junk—that is, from 10 centimeters down to a millimeter in size ...

There are probably about 50,000 pieces of space junk the size of a softball or larger floating near Earth, Boley said. When considering objects between a centimeter or half a millimeter, the ...

What’s more, space weather can change orbital trajectories — so it’s difficult to predict exactly how and where debris is traveling, according to Dr. Thomas Berger, director of the ...