ESA’s Zero Debris Vision sets six priority goals: preventing debris release, ensuring clearance at end-of-life, preventing ...

Earth's orbit is getting dangerously crowded with space debris, raising the risk of satellite collisions and global ...

Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris put ...

Hoboken, N.J., December 4, 2025 — High up in the earth’s orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour. The objects, which range from ...

Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

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 ...

European Space Agency (ESA) and ClearSpace unveiled a bold new initiative: PRELUDE, an in-orbit servicing and debris removal ...

Low Earth orbit no longer feels distant or empty. On a clear November night, a Falcon 9 rose from Cape Canaveral and released 29 Starlink satellites into a busy band of sky about 340 miles up. The ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

Space junk has made such a mess of Earth's orbit that experts say it may be time to think about cleaning it up. That may mean vacuuming up debris with weird space technology -- cosmic versions of nets ...