With roughly 17,000 satellites in orbit and growing space debris, risk of collisions is rising.

The problem of orbital debris buildup is one that the entire space-faring world has been aware of for decades. Kessler Syndrome was proposed in 1978, and though there have been some efforts to deorbit ...

The rapid expansion of orbital activity is creating a problem that no longer ends at the edge of space. New figures ...

Uncontrolled reentries of 500-kg-plus objects occur weekly, yet prediction errors span thousands of kilometers and no binding rules exist Al is a long time tech writer with a penchant for all things ...

When China’s Yaogan 50-02 satellite broke apart this year, it added at least 43 tracked fragments to an orbital environment ...

Joseph was watching TV at his home in Florida when he heard a sharp thud on the roof. He figured it was a branch, but when he climbed up, he found a scorched metal cylinder. It wasn’t from his air ...

A piece of space junk will fall back to Earth next month, giving researchers a chance to study how incoming objects behave when they hit the planet's atmosphere. The object, which is known as WT1190F, ...

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...

The number of satellites in Earth orbit is increasing rapidly. Although more are burning up earlier, the ESA warns of the consequences – and the increasing risk.

The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere early Monday on an orbit that passed over Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean ...