A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

Richard Jacklin, Commercial Lead at Plextek, discusses the next frontier in space debris detection - mmWave radar technology.

Then, when the satellite is no longer in use, and Astroscale spacecraft would track it down and deorbit it. That’s a pretty significant shortcoming, especially since most of the space junk ...

“What these radars do is they track objects in space,” said Ed Lu the chief technology officer at LeoLabs. “There’s a lot of objects in space; satellites, pieces of debris from satellites ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. If just one piece collides with a spacecraft, it can disrupt critical navigation systems. The European Space Agency is calling for urgent ...

There are also many more pieces of junk that are too small to track but still could interfere with satellites or other spacecraft, ESA added. Space debris that poses a risk Objects larger than 1 ...

That junk includes results of old space crashes and parts of rockets ... circling Earth — 7,356 in low orbit — according to the tracking website Orbiting Now. Satellites are critical for ...