One aim of the research is to help monitor the onset of Kessler syndrome — a chain reaction of collisions in space that, in ...

Last month, a tiny piece of debris travelling at high speed cracked the window of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft's return capsule ...

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour.

Millions of pieces of debris now circle Earth in space. Scientists are exploring new ways to remove them and protect future ...

Learn more about the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 and how its powerful blast is similar to our sun’s coronal ...

The problem of space debris is solvable if we work together. After winning his first Oscar, Tom Cruise kept repeating the ...

Google’s Project Suncatcher would need sophisticated collision avoidance capabilities to navigate a junk-filled landscape.

While space explorations are important, the missions do result in pollution. However, experts might have a solution for this ...

Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. The ...

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded with broken satellites and leftover rocket parts. Researchers say the solution is to build ...