A recent study has uncovered a previously unnoticed population of small debris in geostationary orbit (GEO), where vital ...

Fragments as small as 2 inches across are drifting undetected through one of the most valuable regions of space, according to ...

Metal spheres recently found on a beach in northern Queensland, Australia, draw attention to the worsening issue of space ...

Tiny pieces of space junk only 2 inches (5 centimeters) in size are cluttering a valuable orbital region where some of the ...

Imagine a piece of space debris the size of a hockey puck slams into a Starlink satellite at about 10 kilometres per second. The kinetic energy is equivalent to two kilograms of TNT, or a fully-loaded ...

A piece of orbital debris smaller than a marble can punch through a working satellite at speeds exceeding 10 kilometers per ...

Earlier this year, two satellites from two adversarial countries nearly collided while orbiting Earth at thousands of miles an hour. The first, an American spacecraft on a NASA mission to study the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) ” Debris from an obliterated U.S. spy satellite is being tracked over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans but appears to be too small to cause damage on Earth, a senior military officer ...

A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist is participating in a U.S. government effort to design a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than ...

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Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000—about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The world's first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million ...