For decades, the space surrounding our planet has been quietly transforming into a celestial junkyard, littered with speeding fragments that threaten the very satellites we rely on for global ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the Moon. Now it has more than 15,000 – about 10,000 of which are owned by ...

The technology is aimed at solving one of the biggest challenges facing the space industry today: space junk.

Hoboken, N.J., December 4, 2025 — High up in the 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 ...

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...

Earlier this year, an experimental Japanese mission to clear ‘space junk’ or rubbish from the Earth’s orbit ended in failure after a 700-meter (2,300-foot) long tether made from thin wires of ...

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Illustration of congestion in geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 Space is rapidly becoming the world’s most congested frontier. What was once a domain of scientific ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000—about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The world's first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million ...