"About 90 tons of old spacecraft reenter earth's atmosphere every year, and most ... space debris phenomenon has bothered people globally. In 1979, NASA's Skylab space station, the country's ...

Since the Soviets launched the first satellite in 1957, humans have put tens of thousands ... rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

The team have also estimated the annual odds of a direct—and likely devastating—impact between a falling piece of space junk and an aircraft ... this problem. "Countries and companies that ...