The astrophysicist, who keeps close tabs on orbital traffic ... As a result of these reentries, however, the amount of space ...

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 ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

Well, we rely on the upper atmosphere to clean up ... debris generation starts, there's no way to stop it, and once space is cluttered, it can stay cluttered for decades or longer because it'll ...

Space junk is not simply an issue for those ... We don’t have to start looking skywards for small pieces of junk hitting us here on the ground – smaller pieces tend to burn up on re-entry, so we don’t ...

The Deputy Prime Minister yesterday said space debris from three other operators besides SpaceX was found in The Bahamas during clean-up following the March 6 explosion of the latter’s Starship ...

Private space-junk probe to conduct up-close inspection of spent rocket stage Astroscale is also making strides in active debris removal with the ADRAS-J orbital inspection mission, which last ...