The space junk pieces (by this time they had found two ... before both disappeared into the side room to talk behind closed doors with Sawchuk. Well, I tried. After that uneventful private ...

NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there? Is the ...

The danger is not hypothetical. On April 30, 2025, the International Space Station performed its 41st maneuver to avoid orbital debris from a fragment of a Chinese Long March rocket launched in 2005.

Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above ...

Rocket bodies tend to be massive and heat resistant, posing an increased risk. Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth is posing an increased threat to aircraft while falling from space ...

And while the European Space Agency asserts that the annual risk of an individual getting injured by falling debris from space is "less than 1 in 100 billion," that risk could rise.

The Tokyo-based startup developing space debris removal technologies added that it plans to start removing "space junk" from orbit by the end of March 2028. "We want to realize a service to refuel ...

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on ...

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 ...