Astroscale, a company focused on removing space debris, launched the ADRAS-J mission to test its technology by approaching a ...

Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. New research, published in Nature Sustainability on ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...

Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the dusk skies near south Florida and the Bahamas after Starship broke up in space shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably ...

In Gravity, the 2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, astronauts Matt Kowalski and Ryan Stone are on a spacewalk when they are struck by an expanding cloud of debris, tearing Stone away from the ...

Starship rocket explodes after liftoff, second failure this year SpaceX faces setbacks in Mars rocket program FAA issues ground stops due to space debris March 6 (Reuters) - SpaceX's massive ...

according to the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office.) RELATED: What is space junk and why is it a problem? While some space objects burn up completely in the atmosphere, because of ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the ...

About 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Orlando International Airport officials announced they were under a Federal Aviation Administration "ground stop" because of space launch debris. Normal operations at MCO ...

SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded in space on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, causing the FAA to ...