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A magnetic spacecraft that can attract dead satellites has entered orbit - a test in a new effort to clean up space junk
Millions of bits of junk rocket around Earth faster than bullets, threatening to collide with satel…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body just avoided colliding in space and exploding into dangerous debris
In a collision, the satellites would have exploded into a cloud of dangerous, high-speed debris — a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Russian rocket broke up in space above the Indian Ocean — leaving dangerous debris in its wake
Russia’s rocket break down is another reminder of how humanity’s space-junk nightmare could come tr…
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'Unknown' space debris almost flew within 1 mile of the International Space Station. As junk builds up in orbit, the danger of collisions is growing.
An astronaut and two cosmonauts had to hunker down in a Russian spaceship attached to the ISS while…
Susie Neilson
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Did you experience wonky broadband service recently? A broken satellite in space might have something to do with it!
An unknown event in geostationary orbit on October 19, 2024, has led to the fragmentation of the In…
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A dead Russian spacecraft almost collided with a NASA satellite. The crash could have sent 7,500 bits of debris rocketing around Earth.
A dead Russian spacecraft almost crashed into a NASA satellite. The collision would have sent debri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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A piece of space debris punched a tiny hole in the International Space Station, damaging a robotic arm
Scientists monitor more than 23,000 pieces of space junk that could threaten satellites and the spa…
Aylin Woodward
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Space debris from a Russian missile test could disrupt Elon Musk's Starlink project to beam the internet from orbit
As the debris from the anti-satellite test spreads around the world, it could knock some of the sat…
Marianne Guenot
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What Elon Musk's 42,000 Starlink satellites could do for — and to — earth
Elon Musk is hoping to send 42,000 satellites to space to bring high-speed internet to every part o…
Michelle Yan,Bob Hunt,Dave Mo…
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A space junk disaster is a real possibility - here's how the US government is preventing a chain of collisions that'd threaten human access to space
The US government is tracking the orbit of Tiangong-1 and about 23,000 other human-made objects lar…
Dave Mosher
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India's anti-satellite missile test just moved humanity closer to a space-junk nightmare scenario
After a Chinese missile armed with a "kinetic kill vehicle" (essentially a giant bullet-like slug) …
Dave Mosher
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The US government logged 308,984 potential space-junk collisions in 2017 - and the problem could get much worse
There's a real risk that something may smash into something else up there, and it often does. Each …
Dave Mosher
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About 1 in 40 of SpaceX's Starlink satellites may have failed. That's not too bad, but across a 42,000-spacecraft constellation it could spark a crisis.
At this rate, SpaceX may leave more than 1,000 dead satellites in orbit, where they can crash into …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Over half a million chunks of space trash could jeopardize space travel - but Europe has a plan to save it
The objective of RemoveDEBRIS is just that. Demonstrate how we could remove space debris that's clu…
Nathaniel Lee
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Russia says a growing problem in space could be enough to spark a war
If one of those pieces smashed into a military satellite it "may provoke political or even armed co…
Jessica Orwig
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China's out-of-control space station may release a toxic chemical when it crashes
The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) warns: "Potential…
Leanna Garfield
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These are the countries on Earth with the most junk in space
But, of the manmade items in space that are larger than your fist, orbiting satellites are a minori…
Dave Mosher,Andy Kiersz
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What would happen if the moon suddenly blew up
Real-world proponents of space colonization, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, argue that we…
Kevin Loria
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30 Photos From 'Gravity' That Make You Feel Like You're In Space
Inspired by The Kessler Syndrome, a theory that predicts a giant domino effect could occur if space…
Kirsten Acuna
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More than 14,000 hunks of dangerous space junk are hurtling around Earth - here's who put it all up there
The more objects there are in orbit - especially large, uncontrolled space stations, used rocket pa…