"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." ...

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Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

Building in systems post-decluttering is just as important as (if not more important than) the decluttering itself. Coined by ...

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk, which pose a constant threat to future space exploration ...

The space debris problem won't solve itself. We've been kicking the can down the road for years as we continue launching more rockets and payloads into space. In the last couple of years, ...

On December 30, a mysterious 1,100-pound object in the shape of a massive, 8-f00t metal ring, reportedly fell from the sky, ...

The KSA director general said it was lucky that no significant damage was done when the object hurtled to Earth. "The ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...

EXCLUSIVE: A space physics expert has warned about the increasing likelihood of more space debris falling to Earth in the ...

with the resulting debris known as space junk. The problem is expected to only grow as the demand for satellites increases with our desire to explore our solar system, but it could get so bad that ...

This is how debris finds itself languishing in space—and what some organizations are doing to mitigate the problem.