When it comes to space debris, what goes up is coming down more often—and not safely. When spacecraft launch, some components ...

Nearly half of all known objects currently orbiting Earth technically classify as space junk, but the true amount may be even ...

India's destruction of a satellite with a missile created hundreds of pieces of "space junk," a potentially dangerous situation that established space powers have tried to avoid for years. India has ...

Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall ...

A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed and tested a micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) detection and characterization system designed for satellites and spacecraft to monitor impacts ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, unless, of course, you're talking about space debris, since it's too tough to acquire without a shuttle or a spaceship. That's a shame because space ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed and tested a micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) detection and characterization system that detects when a satellite or spacecraft experiences an ...

When a piece of debris hits another object in space, it can also create more space debris, adding to the problem. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

Mankind has littered the space around Earth with nearly 20,000 distinct, trackable objects of debris, but it all started with just one. As Grey notes, the amount of space debris we produced grew ...