A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe late Monday was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX ...

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed ...

A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings ...

A spacecraft has successfully closed in on a massive chunk of metal zipping around Earth, capturing images of it—a big leap ...

Japanese ADRAS-J satellite captures historic close-up of space debris, advancing efforts to tackle orbital junk ...

"That capability gap is significantly narrowed, and we've got to change the way we're looking at space, or that capability gap may reverse and not be in our favor anymore." ...

However, when satellite owners fail to follow disposal protocols for cleaning the orbit or unexpected ... because of falling space debris from a SpaceX rocket. Although assessing the quantity ...

However, when satellite owners fail to follow disposal protocols for cleaning the orbit or unexpected failures occur ... Sydney and Johannesburg because of falling space debris from a SpaceX rocket.

Many older satellites also lack deorbiting plans, worsening debris accumulation in orbit. While small satellites usually burn up, larger objects like rocket boosters and fuel tanks often survive ...

The Starship rocket system is the largest ever built ... possibly the result of cosmic smashups that left debris in the planet’s orbit as recently as 100 million years ago.