Scientists are studying how sensors designed to detect nuclear tests could help track space junk and meteorites crashing down in the world's most remote regions. Across the world, dozens of ...

It’s an issue we can no longer afford to treat as theoretical. To address this threat, the space industry must transition from ground-based tracking to orbit-based detection systems capable of ...

Dougal’s research focuses on laser ablation – using lasers to nudge space debris out of orbit and then burn up reentering earth’s atmosphere or moving into a higher orbit and out of the way. Her work ...

Crack in spacecraft window could signal a shift towards greater cooperation between Beijing and Washington over orbital junk, ...

A Munich student has taken on one of spaceflight's most urgent challenges: clearing Earth's orbit of debris. With his startup ...

A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...

A photo composite of exposures taken over just 30 minutes show satellites low Earth orbit lit all night by sunlight. Many of the parallel streaks heading generally horizontal west to east (right to ...

Could a piece of debris no larger than a fingernail derail an entire manned space mission? For three Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station, that has become a stark reality. The Shenzhou ...

Illustration of congestion in geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 U.S. military officials are scrambling to upgrade decades-old systems that track objects in space — a ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...