The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

Japanese ADRAS-J satellite captures historic close-up of space debris, advancing efforts to tackle orbital junk ...

As Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...

Last week’s Arizona Space Summit brought local and national leaders together to map out how to make the state a force in the ...

While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space junk. A group of researchers from the University of British Columbia ...

Here's How The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space but gets ...

Less drag, therefore, means longer lives for “space junk,” which the researchers ... based on the number of objects floating in that area. Through this approach, the researchers could identify ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Space junk is a very real problem. It might sound silly to think that the space around ...