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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
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
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…
'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
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…
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…
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
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…