Fresh off demonstrating its mechanical tentacle system capturing an uncontrolled object inside the International Space ...

A quick check of my news feed proved me wrong. One of the top stories was about the space junk strike, and even included a photo of the farmer, Barry Sawchuk, standing next to what looked like the ...

Space debris plummeting back to Earth could be a growing problem for aircraft, researchers warned in a new study. The study authors, all affiliated with Canada's University of British Columbia ...

Researchers from the orbital mapping firm LeoLabs are raising alarm bells about the dangerous amount of space junk littering our planet's orbit that will inevitably create a catastrophe. In an ...

The tech targeting space collisions Several startups have turned their attentions to space junk. Over 130 million lumps of trash are currently hurtling around Earth at speeds of up to 15km per second.

Space junk crashing through homes. This is what local researchers are doing to prevent catastrophe Space debris -- or space junk -- is such a concern the federal government has issued new rules ...

A space-junk removal satellite launched for Japanese company Astroscale has completed rendezvous maneuvers with its target and is commencing a proximity operations phase in which it will approach ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...

It’s essentially the atmosphere’s natural space junk cleaning protocol—but climate change might be slowing it down. Subscribe to the Daily newsletter.

A chunk of space junk that smashed through a Florida home last month came from the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. Back in 2021, NASA controllers in Houston remotely released, via ...