Space junk can be as small as a paint fleck or as large as an abandoned rocket launch vehicle; no matter the size, orbital debris poses a significant threat to the astronauts and spacecraft that ...

Space junk in numbers. 2,000 active satellites in Earth's orbit. 3,000 dead satellites in Earth's orbit. 34,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 centimetres. 128 million pieces of space junk larger ...

What Is Space Junk Made Of? When experts use the term "space debris," they're referring to pieces of human-made material that ...

Or in other words, where does all that space junk go, and what does climate change have to do with it? Here to discuss the impact of global warming on satellites is Will Parker, ...

The ISS performed its 39th ever space junk collision avoidance maneuver on Nov. 19. Although it was the first such maneuver in 2024, it may not be the last, experts say.

A batch of space junk is about to hit the Moon. The real kicker here, though, is that nobody wants to take the blame for the leftover rocket currently spiraling at 5,800 mph towards the Moon.

Because this space junk poses serious risk to astronauts and infrastructure in space — as well as presenting problems on the ground for people using GPS, cell phone data and weather monitoring ...

As a result, the risks of space junk crashing back onto land is rising. In the case of a fragment of a Dragon ship that crashed onto U.S. soil, ...

Scientists predict that there are currently more than 30,000 pieces of space junk orbiting above the Earth, and some are large enough to make their way back down to dry land with little warning.

According to the OST and the Space Liability Convention, what should’ve happened is this: after finding SpaceX’s space junk, Sawchuk somehow should have contacted Global Affairs Canada, which ...

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there?