Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. If just one piece collides with a spacecraft, it can disrupt ...

There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

Every year, one satellite is destroyed by a space junk collision. With more than 130 million pieces of debris now trapped in ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

Or in other words, where does all that space junk go, and what does climate change have to do with it? Here to discuss the impact of global warming on satellites is Will Parker, PhD candidate in ...

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Despite its reputation, outer space is far from empty, and the region around our planet is particularly riddled with space ...

The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at ...

The number of such objects tracked by space surveillance networks increased about 8% last year to around 40 000, ESA said.

The three satellites, designated Kosmos 2581, 2582 and 2583, launched on a Soyuz-2.1V rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome early ...

PERSEI Space, a startup supported by the European Space Agency and UC3M, is developing a breakthrough solution to tackle ...