Given the mounting number of objects in orbit, this is likely to be a more regular occurrence. It's costly in terms of damage ...

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies ...

Space debris, NASA says, "encompasses both natural meteoroid and artificial (human-made) orbital debris." Since humans don't have much control over meteoroids — except, maybe, for shooting them off ...

Companies like AT&T, Amazon, JPMorgan, and Instagram have a RTO problem: there's not enough places for workers to sit.

Human-made debris left behind in outer space is a growing problem down on Earth From defunct satellites to rocket parts, debris from everything humans have launched into space since the 1950s is ...

(TNS) — Space is vast. But are certain parts of space in danger of becoming overcrowded with Internet satellites and cosmic junk? Concern has been increasing among government agencies, astronomers and ...

Last November, the International Space Station (ISS) had to dodge space junk again. The ISS had to fire its thrusters to avoid a collision with space junk in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The ISS fired its ...

The problem posed by human-made junk in space worsened significantly in 2024, according to a new report by the European Space Agency. The report follows a Chinese launch last August that raised alarms ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report ...

NASA is optimistic engineers can fix the computer problem that has kept Voyager 1 from transmitting usable data for months. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — A NASA official says he is optimistic ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" We have launched all manner of satellite and machinery into low-Earth orbit. But what goes up must come down. Most often, these items burn up in the ...