Japan is launching wooden satellites into outer space to reduce the atmospheric pollution created by metal satellites as they ...

Thousands of expendable satellites are falling into the Earth's atmosphere and turning it into a polluted "crematorium." ...

On February 20, 2025, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked across Europe, and scientists in Germany tracked its lithium pollution plume via LiDAR.

A high-speed crash at a busy Fresno intersection last week left a trail of destruction stretching more than 500 feet after a muscle car went airborne. Investigators say the driver of the Dodge Charger ...

Discover how space debris tracking technology, automated satellite collision avoidance systems, and active debris removal missions prevent Kessler syndrome and protect orbiting spacecraft. Pixabay, ...

Space debris, also known as space junk, consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages and other various fragments from collisions. According to the ...

Space is filled with garbage. More specifically, the low Earth orbit, where most satellites and space equipment spend their time. NASA estimates that there are nearly 6,000 tons of material in low ...

How much space junk is currently orbiting the earth? Credit: Space.com | animation: ESA | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta Trump administration to make it easier to fire 50,000 federal workers Rare ...

It’s one extraordinary thing to launch the product of mankind’s brilliant minds into the cosmos, but it’s another to keep track of it long after the mission ends. We’ve explored before how important ...

Vantor used its WorldView-2 satellite from 150 mi. to image the Starlink spacecraft that experienced an anomaly on Dec. 17. Credit: Vantor The return of the Chinese Shenzhou-20 crew capsule did not ...

How can scientists track space junk after it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the ground? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a team of scientists from the ...

The second edition of the Space Debris 2026 Conference officially commenced today. Organized by the Saudi Space Agency (SSA), the conference is witnessing broad international participation ...