Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, unless, of course, you're talking about space debris, since it's too tough to acquire without a shuttle or a spaceship. That's a shame because space ...

Current space debris tracking technology is limited to objects larger than 10 centimeters, leaving a significant population of smaller, untrackable debris posing a collision risk to future space ...

Sierra Space plans to launch a trash compactor to the space station in two years — and some media outlets say the machine looks like Wall-E. An International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission in ...

The world's oceans are polluted with trash. So is outer space, the final frontier and junkyard. More than 9,000 tons of trash are currently orbiting the planet, including old, decommissioned ...