The study highlights how letting rocket debris burn up in the atmosphere is not a consequence-free approach to orbital ...

After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

A Russian anti-satellite missile test destroyed the defunct COSMOS 1408 satellite, generating more than 1,500 pieces of ...

Space junk returning to Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a ...

Earth-observation satellites deliver data that is critical in monitoring the progress of climate change, but they are ...

The European Space Agency is designing a ground-based laser system called Omlet to nudge space debris away from satellites.

Space debris poses significant risks to satellites, jeopardizing billion-dollar missions. Companies worldwide, including India-based Digantara and Pixxel Space, use AI to monitor debris and satellite ...

Since 1971, space agencies have crashed retired spacecraft at Point Nemo, raising concerns about ocean debris and the ISS ...

The area of the Moon is an extremely challenging environment for space debris removal. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine wilderness and more like a crowded shipping lane, with thousands of satellites and shards of metal racing around Earth at several kilometers per ...

As more satellite megaconstellations continue to be launched, researchers are exploring the odds people could be struck by ...