The International Space Station had to fire thrusters from a docked spacecraft last month to avoid a piece of debris that has been circling the globe for the nearly 18 years since the Chinese ...

Humanity needs to start addressing the growing space junk problem now, before it gets out of hand, scientists stress. Earth orbit is getting more and more crowded, with both active satellites and ...

The International Space Station has recently dodged space debris twice in six days, highlighting the increasing threat of space junk in low Earth orbit. With over 10,200 active satellites and ...

To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The environmental impacts are still uncertain. Early on a Sunday morning ...

In just six days, the International Space Station (ISS) had to dodge space debris twice, underscoring the mounting problem of space junk. On November 25, thrusters on Russia's Progress 89 cargo ...

It’s all part of the countless bits of human-made material that some people have dubbed “space junk.” But what if, many, many years from now, archeologists wanted to trace the chronology of space ...

Believe it or not, the answer is – getting hit by space debris. This is because even small pieces of debris moving at high velocities can cause catastrophic damage to space suits, equipment ...