Space junk was found scattered across several fields in Australia last month. The debris likely came from a SpaceX Crew-1 flight, an astrophysicist who examined the junk said.

As space debris orbits around the earth at tremendous speeds – about 15,700 miles per hour (25,265 kph) in low Earth orbit – it could cause significant damage to a satellite or a spacecraft in ...

Now, the FCC has issued the first space debris fine of its kind. ... It was launched to geostationary orbit — a field of space that begins about 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) ...

Space junk is a serious problem and is getting worse. In this game, you’ll maneuver a spacecraft through an increasingly crowded debris field.

A swarm of junk-eliminating spacecraft called EDDE would be powered by the sun and Earth's magnetic field and use a net. It could clear big space junk pieces in 12 years at $84 million a year.

NASA's International Space Station still has to dodge this debris to this day. At some point, the heavens above will reach a breaking point. Yes, space is big, but there is so much junk out there.

Composite image from Slingshot’s LEO-focused Horus optical fences, showing debris from the Aug. 6 Long March 6A launch. Credit: Slingshot Aerospace HELSINKI — A Chinese launch to deploy a ...

The piece of space debris. Picture: Dr Brad Tucker When Mick Miners, a farmer in New South Wales, Australia, first saw a large black object sticking out of the ground in a remote part of his land ...

Russia's test on Monday to blow up one of its own satellites in space has drawn criticism for endangering the crew of the International Space Station and, experts say, created a debris field that ...

While the debris field was very concentrated at first, it has dispersed over time, said Dana Weigel, NASA deputy manager of the International Space Station Program before the spacewalk was postponed.

One of the reasons space debris is so hard to clean up is because it is often moving extremely fast, at speeds of up to 17,500 miles per hour, and it often consists of strangely-shaped pieces ...