At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall to Earth every day, a new report reveals. Some experts think it's a ...

That pace shows no sign of slowing down. 2025 is expected to see a record-breaking number of launches, as a new international ...

Here, among the arid desert sands of Las Cruces, Sierra Space wanted to see in real-time how its space station handled ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

triggering discussions of whether it was part of 'space debris'. IMAGE: A metal object from the sky fell on the terrace of a house in Umred taluka of Nagpur district. Photograph: Courtesy @ ...

Space junk rained down on Saskatchewan farmland twice ... "It's adding all of this metal to the upper atmosphere … but pieces making it to the ground is really, really quite scary," ...

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

the amount of space junk burning up in the upper layers of the atmosphere is increasing, which worries some atmospheric scientists. Satellites are mostly made of aluminum, which produces aluminum ...