Most of these ... and all four countries have have carried out tests of their so-called satellite killers in orbit (destroying their own satellites). Space debris in lower orbits tends to re ...

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

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Three big hunks of space junk have been ... by Space Objects, the country from which a rocket is launched is responsible for any damage it causes. These agreements have been ratified by both ...

That debris has been created by collisions, explosions between satellites and anti-satellite weapons tests that have occurred over the last several decades. Thousands of pieces of space debris are ...

The cause is a lack of transparency, said Aarti Holla-Maini, director of the U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), with countries preferring to keep their activities behind the veil ...

His theory is that once space debris reaches ... are constantly hit by small debris, in a moderate way, but that could have consequences,” Verspieren said. The most famous example of a ...