Scientists have uncovered dozens of previously undetected fragments of space debris, revealing a “potential minefield” in ...

The new space race is accelerating, but debris, failures, and crowded orbits are raising new risks around Earth.

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000—about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The world's first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million ...

A giant mirror to create “sunlight on demand” was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), ...

Imagine a piece of space debris the size of a hockey puck slams into a Starlink satellite at about 10 kilometers per second. The kinetic energy is equivalent to 2 kilograms of TNT, or a fully loaded ...

When the Sun reaches higher levels of activity, junk drifting in low Earth orbit loses altitude at an increased rate — and for the first time, scientists have measured that increase and identified ...

The mission will bridge a critical data gap on millimeter-sized orbital debris, which poses the greatest mission-ending ...

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Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...