On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...

When a Russian satellite shattered in orbit, the fragments did not simply drift away into the void. They spread into busy ...

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

A recent event involving a Russian satellite, the Luch/Olymp, which appears to have disintegrated in orbit, has raised alarming questions about the rising threats posed by space debris. The satellite, ...

When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

As space activity expands, the accumulation of man-made objects in orbit has become a critical challenge. Space debris ...

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.