A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

In the early morning hours of February 19, 2025, a bright object streaked through the skies above western Europe. The mysterious, flaming hunk of metal traveled for several hours before smashing ...

Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

A 7-millimeter diameter chip in one of the glass windows making up the International Space Station's Cupola, caused by the impact of a tiny piece of space debris estimated to be less than a few ...

In the intense early days of the space race, a small, unusual satellite was launched into space sixty-seven years ago.

About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple ... for active satellites and for the International Space Station — a problem so severe that several ...

Researchers successfully made miso on the International Space Station (ISS ... Designing a Satellite to Hunt Small Space Debris Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and ...

such as falling debris from SpaceX’s Starship 7... Rocket Lab has postponed its "IOT 4 You and Me" mission to avoid potential collisions with satellites and the International Space Station.

Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and there are plans to launch thousands more over the next few years. Some of ...