The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

Richard Jacklin, Commercial Lead at Plextek, discusses the next frontier in space debris detection - mmWave radar technology.

According to a study published on January 23 in the journal Nature, the growing number of space debris could have serious consequences for air traffic. "The consequences of a collision between an ...

Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...

Collisions are a growing risk as space gets more crowded, and greenhouse gas emissions could make things worse. Greenhouse ...

By the year 2100, some parts of Earth orbit may have upwards of 66% less carrying capacity for satellites, according to a new ...

When fiery debris from SpaceX Starships rained down across the Atlantic, air traffic controllers scrambled to delay takeoffs and divert aircraft ...

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

TOKYO -- A senior United Nations official sees a growing risk of satellites involved in "a catastrophic collision," warning ... of the U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), with countries ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

threatening to spawn local runaway space debris collision cascades. Such cascades would produce further fragment clouds that would further decrease the safety of orbital traffic. Breaking space ...