We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites over the next 100 years." ...

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

Beyond the chance of "randomly falling space junk" killing people on Earth, "collisions in space ... What can be done about the orbital debris problem? The U.S. Federal Communications Commission ...

The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space but gets ...

However, there is a growing problem right ... a long enough period, Earth’s orbit could be clogged by junk. The ESA states that the time to actively clean up our orbital ecosystem has come.

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be ... which monitors orbital debris. That junk includes results of old space crashes and parts of rockets ...