Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong will extend their stay aboard the Tiangong space station after their capsule was hit by ...

"Do we react for everything which has a chance to reach the ground? Or do we react only for the very large objects, as we did ...

The safety concern continues to increase into 2026 as researchers at the University of British Columbia predicted in a study ...

ESA’s Zero Debris Vision sets six priority goals: preventing debris release, ensuring clearance at end-of-life, preventing break-ups, improving surveillance, avoiding ground casualties and mitigating ...

Space junk is raising safety concerns for aircraft, with a 2025 study warning of a 26% chance debris could pass through busy ...

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 ...

Using debris modeling and simulations, the U.S. Space Force, the branch of the military that deals with the nation’s space ...

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

Portal’s Starburst-1 is the company’s first on-orbit demonstration mission. It will aim to validate the company’s ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

Cosmoserve Space develops innovative robotic arms to tackle space debris, enhancing satellite safety with upcoming technology tests.

ALBATOR has a multi-million dollar grant to study touchless space junk removal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new space ...