Imagine how many snacks you would need to pack. Space junk (also known as space debris or space pollution) is any man-made object orbiting Earth that no longer serves a useful purpose. Scientists ...

Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space ...

Many thought it was a meteor shower or a comet - however experts say it was a piece of space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere, which had come from a Chinese rocket involved in a recent space ...

There is so much "space junk" in orbit, and it may jeopardize future launches and lives. There is a lot of trash and debris in space, including old satellites. This debris travels at a very high ...

The International Space Station (ISS) had to steer clear of a piece of space junk on Monday — the second such maneuver that the orbital outpost has had to make in a week. “The ISS is orbiting ...