There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the ...

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 ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

The milestone means that Astroscale has unlocked a new round of funding from Japan's space agency, which will allow it to move on to finally docking with a chunk of space junk, as Ars Technica ...

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 ...

Astroscale, a company focused on removing space debris, launched the ADRAS-J mission to test its technology by approaching a discarded rocket stage. ADRAS-J stands for Active Debris Removal by ...

Space surveillance networks, like the U.S. Space Force, are currently tracking nearly 40,000 pieces of debris, some as large ... In 2024, a Japanese company, Astroscale, managed to maneuver ...

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 ...

The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit ... In 2024, a Japanese company, Astroscale, managed to maneuver a retrieval device within ...

SPACE start-ups in Japan and India said they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly imminent problem ...