Space debris might sound like something from science fiction, but it's becoming a daily reality for our planet. Every hour of ...

Elon Musk’s satellite network is expected to balloon in size over the next decade. Should we be concerned? (Hint: Many ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit are de-orbiting and falling to Earth at the rate of one to two per day. If Starlink continues scaling up ...

The scientific community is overreacting to theoretical computer models—and offering unaffordable and impractical solutions to the hypothetical problems they have thus far identified.

Thousands of pieces of space junk are littering low-Earth orbit (LEO), potentially imperiling the future of human spaceflight. A new study highlights a novel idea to clean up this orbital mess using ...

Thousands of dead satellites and rocket fragments now orbit Earth at high speeds threatening the very technology we rely on ...

A new paper has listed the top 50 most problematic pieces of space debris currently in low Earth orbit (LEO). Most of them are from the last century and pose a serious risk of breaking into finer, ...

Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell has told EarthSky that one or two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth every day. McDowell’s website, Jonathan’s ...

The system may one day be used to push debris off a collision course with satellites. At a double observatory atop Mount Teide on the Spanish island of Tenerife, a powerful laser is being deployed to ...

Kessler Syndrome is a scenario in which a cascade of orbital collisions could render low orbit a wasteland of dangerous debris. Will it happen to us, and what can we do if it does?