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 ...

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 ...

Here are a few of the most common (and problematic) types of space debris. Every mission has an expiration date. If all goes ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...