Space agencies have long worried about what happens when old satellites and rocket parts fall back through the atmosphere, ...

The European Space Agency and ClearSpace of Switzerland are targeting 2026 for a debris removal mission, in which a long-discarded payload adapter will be ...

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Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded shipping lane, with fragments of old rockets and defunct satellites threatening the next generation of ...

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 ...

High up in 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 inactive satellites to fragments of equipment ...

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