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 ...

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 ...

which seeks a proven way to remove problematic space junk from orbit. ADRAS-J previously flew around the hunk of discarded metal, capturing imagery and gathering data on the rocket's condition and ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA ... The agency said there is a possibility that the debris may float around and be washed ashore. Residents in coastal villages have ...