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Also called space debris, space junk is comprised of non-operational satellites and other human-made objects that continue to hurtle around Earth's orbit long after they served their purpose.

Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

China obliterating one of its Fengyun weather satellites resulted in approximately 3,000 trackable bits of debris, 2,700 of which are still in orbit, according to space traffic firm LEO Labs.

Researchers are working to come up with ways to mitigate the space junk problem, one of which would use fabrication concepts to reduce the size of debris pieces that make it to Earth.

The past five decades of space exploration and utilization have created an orbiting junkyard of space debris. More than 22,000 pieces of space clutter at least 2.5 inches (10 centimeters) wide are ...

When the space shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas, it scattered 84,000 pieces of debris, and most of it has never been closely analyzed. Now, two years after the disaster that killed seven ...

The Space Foundation, in partnership with L3Harris and Pueblo Community College, will be hosting the "Space in the Community" event on Thursday, March 13 ...

Orbital debris is (nearly) forever, and threatens to render near-Earth space (under 1250 miles, or 2000 km altitude) unusable, and all but impassible. The 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test and the ...

Since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s, humankind has launched around 50,000 tons of material into, according to the ESA, which cited data from the U.S Space Surveillance Network.The total ...