Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris put ...

In 2020, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to "purchase a unique service: the ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves a satellite using the plasma exhaust of its ion engine to knock dangerous ...

The area of the Moon is an extremely challenging environment for space debris removal. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, unless, of course, you're talking about space debris, since it's too tough to acquire without a shuttle or a spaceship. That's a shame because space ...

The European Space Agency is designing a ground-based laser system called Omlet to nudge space debris away from satellites.

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home. The ...