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

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

India's POEM-4 experiment module burned up and fell into the Indian Ocean to avoid becoming space debris. An Indian ...

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earth’s orbit is absolutely littered with space junk, and every new rocket we send ...

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

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth – but soon it will even be messing up its orbit, scientists have revealed. It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

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