Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia analyzed global air traffic patterns against the projected re-entry paths of uncontrolled space debris.

This anime series about people whose job entails collecting space garbage is a masterful blend of sci-fi drama and political ...

There's a 26% annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, ...

Scientists are not sure how much metallic dust remained in the atmosphere after the most recent SpaceX rocket 'disassembly.' ...

NASA released views of several angles of SpaceX Starship’s second test flight. The massive rocket launched from SpaceX's ...

Video captured what looks like space debris in the sky, which is "left over" from the Starlink-5693 launch vehicle, according to aerospace.org. New strain in Calif. Get the USA TODAY app Start the ...

Space debris lit up the sky over Sheboygan, Wisconsin, as parts of a Starlink satellite reentered the atmosphere on Tuesday, January 28. Parts of the Starlink-5693 satellite disintegrated as they ...

space junk. Also known as space debris, this refers to defunct satellites, spent rocket stages, fragments from collisions, and other remnants of human activity in space. As the amount of debris in ...

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An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.