Low-orbit Earth could become inoperable for spacecraft and satellites if this complacency persists, with dire consequences.

The accumulation of space debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) has reached a dangerous tipping point, according to leading ...

About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need. Nine in 10 useful satellites are ...

Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently ...

Low-Earth Warning Some of the world's leading space experts are warning that the current orbital junk crisis surrounding our ...

Since Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster in space in 2018, cars made on Earth by humans have made their entrance onto the intergalactic stage. For all you alien readers out there, we created this ...

[Related: Some space junk just got smacked by more space junk, complicating cleanup.] Each of the five BlueBirds now in orbit are roughly the same size as BlueWalker 3, meaning they will soon ...

The project is intended to help understand how exactly satellites break apart so that scientists can learn how to prevent the creation of more space debris. Space junk is becoming a bigger problem ...

Related: Burned-up space junk pollutes Earth's upper atmosphere, NASA planes find After reentry, the capsule will deploy a parachute and, while it descends, transmit the valuable data collected by ...

"We were able to reduce the weight by as much as 40% and still have it pass the tests for orbital debris needs." A next-generation space debris protection material is readying for a test trip to ...

A "clean" installation of Windows, at this point, forces you to sign up for a Microsoft account, tries to sell you cloud ...