The recent surge in solar activity is causing unexpected drag on thousands of Starlink satellites, raising questions about ...

After more than 60 years of satellite launches and space exploration, manufactured objects like derelict spacecraft and rocket fragments now litter Earth’s orbit as space junk. The waste has ...

Earth’s space junk may be wreaking havoc on the stratosphere. The rapid surge in satellite megaconstellations is connecting much of the world to broadband internet. But each year, hundreds of ...

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they ...

New satellite images show North Korea has deployed what appear to be balloons alongside its damaged 5,000-ton warship that ...

The space junk photographed by Astroscale’s satellite shows the upper stage of a rocket that’s been orbiting Earth for the last 15 years. Astroscale Orbital debris removal company Astroscale ...

The number of satellites orbiting Earth is rising fast, thanks to private companies such as SpaceX. But just how big will ...

Earth has a growing space junk problem, with three sizable pieces of debris crashing onto our planet every day. To combat ...

That absence of oversight, they say, could lead to an increase in dangerous space junk affecting Earth, especially as competing satellite internet companies rush to build out and launch tens of ...

A decommissioned Russian satellite broke apart in low Earth orbit Wednesday, creating more than 100 pieces of debris and adding to the space junk already in orbit. RESURS-P1, which NASA said was a ...

Astroscale’s space junk observation satellite has moved within striking distance to a discarded rocket upper stage that’s been floating around Earth for nearly 20 years, taking close-up ...

Suffice it to say that Earth’s space junk problem is only going to get worse as Earth’s satellite problem does. And with the US Space Force planning missions to refuel satellites, we’re only ...