A new report from NASA's Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy provides agency leadership with new insight about how to measure the risks presented by orbital debris. "Growing activity in ...

Additionally, NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office says there are about 9,000 metric tons of material orbiting Earth. Most of the debris in lower orbit is "moving very fast and can reach speeds of ...

NASA and other federal agencies are getting more serious about addressing the proliferation of orbital debris: Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration proposed new regulations that would ...

It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ...

In the United States, NASA has its own Orbital Debris Program based in Houston, Texas tasked with creating less orbital debris and designing equipment to track and remove space junk.

LAUREL, Md. — A NASA study concluded that some methods of removing orbital debris could pay for themselves within a decade by reducing the costs and risks borne by satellite operators.

Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

PARIS — NASA has established a space sustainability division that will consolidate much of the work the agency is doing on orbital debris and related issues.

In the United States, NASA has its own Orbital Debris Program based in Houston, Texas tasked with creating less orbital debris and designing equipment to track and remove space junk.

Measurement data used by the NASA ODPO to describe the orbital debris populations in the near-Earth space environment. (Credit: NASA ODPO) As the above graphic makes clear, ...

Space junk is a term for what scientists call “orbital debris, ”and according to NASA, there are millions of pieces of it floating around. It’s specifically in low Earth orbit, and although ...

Additionally, NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office says there are about 9,000 metric tons of material orbiting Earth. Most of the debris in lower orbit is "moving very fast and can reach speeds of ...