A study published in Scientific Reports highlights the presence of around 50,000 pieces of space debris, each the size of a softball or larger, and coming from the remains of various rocket ...

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, ...

Tens of thousands of pieces of space debris are hurtling around Earth right now. These defunct satellites, spent rocket ...

There’s such a massive mess of space junk floating around the planet that scientists now say it could ruin their view of the stars. A long-defunct “grandfather” satellite ERS-2 fell to Earth ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Space junk basically is any machinery or debris left in space by humans. Items range in size from large objects such as failed or dead satellites to tiny objects such as paint flecks and nuts and ...

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, ...

Human-made debris left behind in outer space is a growing problem down on Earth From defunct satellites to rocket parts, debris from everything humans have launched into space since the 1950s is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...