space junk

Floating around the Earth is a bunch of satellites. Cool for GPS, monitoring weather patterns, and the internet—not…

A tiny mystery object is zipping past the Earth today, providing astronomers with an excellent opportunity to…

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…

Yesterday, NASA and Russian flight controllers performed an “avoidance maneuver” to protect the International Space…

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

The Federal Communications Commission gave Amazon the go-ahead Thursday for its ambitious Project Kuiper, which…

Incredible video taken last night in Australia shows what was likely the late-stage of a Russian rocket burning up…

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

Update: U.S. Space Command has confirmed that the decommissioned satellites in question, the joint NASA-Netherlands I…

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

Astronomers at a Chilean observatory were rudely interrupted earlier this week when a SpaceX satellite train…

JoAnna Wendel is a science cartoonist and writer in Washington, DC. She loves space, planets, rocks, and her cat,…

Flashes lit up the sky over Chile last week, some even causing fires on the ground—but a new report has found that…

Earlier today, the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace was notified by the U.S. Air Force that its Genesis II…

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

Members of the American Astronomical Society are speaking out about the potential for large satellite…

If there is one thing no one needs, it’s additional spaces for brands to overwhelm humanity with even more…

India’s first successful test of an anti-satellite weapon has produced an orbiting debris field consisting of at…

In a surprise televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s first successful test…