Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025.

Humans are littering space with thousands of satellites, which pose a risk to climate and the environment, space ...

Earth’s orbit is turning into a high-speed scrapyard, but someone is finally stepping up to clean it. With over 32,000 pieces ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

Our exploitation and exploration of space has left 13,000 tonnes of junk orbiting Earth. Defunct craft and larger pieces of debris are also colliding, adding to the millions of smaller fragments which ...

Space junk is a major threat with millions of debris pieces now in orbit. Risks range from minor collisions reducing the ...

By 2030, we will face an unprecedented situation: the first major space station in history will cease to exist. But what ...

SPACE debris raining down on Earth is increasingly at risk of causing “catastrophic” collisions with aircraft, a damning new report has revealed. A sharp rise in the number of rocket ...

Kall Morris Inc. will continue to demonstrate the REACCH project at the ISS for the next few months and expects to launch a ...

Any time you see something falling through the sky, like leaving that trail of light, whether it’s space junk or a meteor ...

SPACE debris raining down on Earth is increasingly ... an object thought to be from the massive EP-9 equipment pallet jettisoned from the ISS crashed two floors into a Florida man's home.