An interactive map has recently highlighted the alarming increase in out-of-control rockets and spacecraft crashing back to Earth. This surge in uncontrolled reentries poses significant risks to populated areas,

The suspected space junk was found by mining personal in Australia and a multi-agency investigation has been launched as a result.

Called ALBATOR, the 3.9 million Euro ($4.6 million USD) early-stage concept is examining non-kinetic methods to move space junk out of the way of satellites or objects like the International Space Station before they threaten these spacecraft.

Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris put simply, is any non-functional object in space,” Ron ...

A large chunk of suspected space debris has been found in a remote part of the Australian desert, the country’s space agency confirmed Monday. The charred and smoldering object was found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, according to the ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves a satellite using the plasma exhaust of its ion engine to knock dangerous chunks of space junk into the atmosphere where they can ...

German space officials are sure that their defunct X-ray telescope satellite entered the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, but after that, scientists don't appear too certain about what happened to the piece of space junk. The Roentgen satellite, called ROSAT ...