Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk ... tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between ...

Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...

Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite mega constellation is just the beginning.

attempts to answer its conjecture with supportive statistics and orbital projections ... that the kind of Earth orbit matters when discussing whether we're in a space junk "crisis" — though ...

Look up at the night sky. Among the sparkling stars and wandering planets, a silent threat grows with each passing day—a ...

A SOVIET spacecraft once destined for Venus is expected to crash land on Earth this week after more than 50 years stuck in ...

The ISS was forced to execute evasive manoeuvres as if it hadn’t the debris would have passed as close as 600m from the space ...

But unlike Kosmos 482, most space junk doesn’t have a heat shield. That’s why it could present a problem. About 71% of the Earth’s surface is ... slowing the orbital speed and thus causing ...

The ISS and its crew are reported safe after NASA and its partners were forced to raise the orbit of the facility to avoid a hazardous piece of space junk.