Space debris

The European Space Agency has signed a historic deal with Swiss startup ClearSpace to remove a single item of space…

Earth will soon welcome a temporary mini-moon, but this newly detected object, an apparent asteroid, might actually…

Our ability to efficiently detect space debris has taken an important leap forward, thanks to a new technique in…

A large, out-of-control piece of space debris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday, passing over much of the…

The European Space Agency has commissioned the first-ever mission to remove a single piece of space debris from…

The European Space Agency was forced to perform a “collision avoidance maneuver” to prevent its Aeolus spacecraft…

A small satellite has captured a piece of space debris using a claw-tipped harpoon. The test represents an important…

I love clicks as much as the next online journalist. I love that there is an uncertain thing happening, with…

China’s defunct space station Tiangong-1 will soon plummet toward Earth, likely this weekend. You will almost…

There’s a crapload of debris orbiting our planet and potentially posing a hazard to our astronauts and our…

This quarter-inch diameter chip was photographed by British astronaut Tim Peake from inside the Cupola module of the…

You think the trash problem in your city is bad? Try outer space. We humans have been littering our cosmic backyard…

Satellites are built to endure decades in the most inhospitable conditions in the known universe. Paradoxically,…

You may be surprised to learn that a “mysterious object dubbed ‘WT1190F’” is headed directly for Earth. THIS IS…

About two hours ago—at about 8AM EST this morning—a piece of an old Russian-built weather satellite sped by the…

Something lit up the sky over a whole swath of the lower Eastern states last night, catching eyes all the way from…

Millions of pieces of space junk, big and small, are constantly circling the Earth. This intractable problem has…

2,465. That’s the number of satellites that are whipping gracefully around the Earth as you read this.

So far, governments have opted to deal with the problem of space junk by implementing policies to reduce the…

Just what are all those tiny, swirling dots swooping gracefully around the Earth? Are those pinprick points the…