It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ‘space junk.'” ...

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

Space junk is a huge problem. The surge in satellite launches in recent years is leaving low Earth orbit (LEO) cluttered with debris such as discarded rocket bodies, broken parts and defunct ...

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

In 2020, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to "purchase a unique service: the first-ever removal of an item of space debris from orbit," according to ESA. C ...

Space is big, and the separations between these pieces of space debris are quite large.” Batcheldor said most space debris, or space junk, is tracked and right now not posing a danger to any new ...

Clearing the heavens of space junk 06:17. If you're going to be a character in a space movie, like "Space Cowboys" or "Gravity," you've got to watch out for space junk; everybody knows that.

Though space is vast and odds of a collision are tiny, the Aug. 6 space junk mishap is likely on the radar screen of SpaceX's upcoming Polaris Dawn mission.

Researchers from Austria have created a new method of using lasers to visualize space debris, even during the daytime, an innovation they say could help precisely map all space junk in orbit ...

In 1978, Kessler postulated that more space debris would increase the likelihood of collisions, which in turn would lead to more space debris, and so on, in an exponential growth that may end up ...

The debris came from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket launched on July 24 to deliver a module to the country's new Tiangong space station. The large rocket has a core stage and four solid rocket ...

Space debris expert Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics said on Twitter that the first encounter between the space station and the space junk occurred at 2:06 a.m. EST ...