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Space debris is becoming a pressing issue as Earth's orbit grows increasingly crowded. Experts warn that this congestion ...

All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...

The Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Obelisk update is here, and it’s the biggest update for the game to date, bringing a new map for the Operations PvE mode, a new Chaos enemy, and a Dark ...

A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over some southern states in the United States this weekend, but that was no meteor ...

A Chinese satellite that no longer works caused the bright streaks Saturday night in the sky over North Mississippi that had ...

Anthropologists are urging space organizations to develop a record of all human-made artifacts that end up on Mars' surface.

Human-made objects on Mars, including spacecraft, landers, and rovers, may hold significant archaeological value rather than ...

At the ISS' altitude of between 230 and 285 miles (370 to 460 kilometers), half of the impacts are caused by space junk instead, and occasionally, the ISS will have to maneuver to avoid space junk.

Japanese orbital janitor Astroscale says it has completed the closest ever approach by a commercial operator to space junk when it came within 15 meters of a defunct upper stage rocket. The Active ...

The 270-kilogram Optimus craft was a “trailblazing satellite to clean up space junk”, and could refuel, repair and deorbit old satellites from a critically crowded cosmos, according to Austrade.

Scientists refer to these as sporadics. These are simply bits of solar system debris that are part of the several metric tons of space dust that NASA estimates is swept up by Earth every day.