If there is one thing no one needs, it’s additional spaces for brands to overwhelm humanity with even more advertising.…
India’s first successful test of an anti-satellite weapon has produced an orbiting debris field consisting of at least…
In a surprise televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s first successful test of…
The area immediately above our planet where most of our satellites live might seem like an inexhaustible place, but…
A small satellite has captured a piece of space debris using a claw-tipped harpoon. The test represents an important…
An inflatable space sculpture launched to orbit in December remains unfurled, in one of the more unanticipated…
Tomorrow morning, an Epsilon-4 rocket will blast off from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center in Japan. Onboard is a…
As if there isn’t already enough junk in space, an artist is planning to launch a reflective, inflatable sculpture to…
There may be at least half a million pieces of man-made junk orbiting this planet. Tiny pieces can travel around 10…
An experimental Japanese mission to remove dangerous debris from orbit has ended in failure. It’s a frustrating setback…
You would never buy a hundred million-dollar computer without a repair plan, but that’s exactly what NASA does when it…
Around 9:30pm last night, residents of Northern California began reporting bright lights in the sky that could be seen…
It won’t be long now. In just a few short months, the long-standing debate—space harpoon versus giant butterfly…
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,…
Humans clearly have a trash problem on Earth, but our track record isn’t that much better in outer space, where tens of…
I wasn’t worried. Were you worried?
Earlier this week, the internet worked itself into a frenzy over the “mysterious chunk of space trash” — actually a spen…
You may be surprised to learn that a “mysterious object dubbed ‘WT1190F’” is headed directly for Earth. THIS IS TRUE.…
A rogue chunk of debris that orbited Earth far beyond the Moon is making a homecoming on November 13th, astronomers…
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