As per NASA's official website, LEO is now viewed as the World’s largest garbage dump. So why can't we do anything to remove the junk? The reason is simple, space travel is in itself an ...

The International Space Station ... navigated away from the debris. The space station is “the most heavily shielded spacecraft ever flown,” NASA said. But it moves around the Earth at a ...

This new technique could help researchers detect incoming space debris around the globe, even without visual observations. You may like Colliding space junk makes 'noise' that could be heard from ...

For instance, ESA estimates that there are about 40,500 debris objects at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide whizzing around our planet. The space debris population includes another 1.1 million ...

From natural disasters and humanitarian crises to advances in space exploration, here's how 2024 was seen from space.

Believe it or not, the answer is – getting hit by space debris. This is because even small ... of the most pressing challenges facing the world today.

The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space ...

The International Space Station (ISS) can’t catch a break. Less than a week after completing evasive maneuvers to avoid space junk ... be found enjoying a new world in a video game, or tinkering ...

The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space ...

Space startups in Japan and India said on Tuesday they had agreed to jointly study using laser-equipped satellites to remove debris from orbit, an experimental approach to the increasingly ...