Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

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

at least one satellite is destroyed by a space junk collision. With more than 130 million pieces of debris now trapped in orbit around Earth, the European Space Agency (ESA) expects that figure to ...

Named after an American astrophysicist called Donald Kessler, it refers to a scenario in which a space junk collision sets off a chain reaction of similar incidents. Experts are divided over how ...

With the space ... debris. The number of objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond has surged exponentially with the emergence of private companies like SpaceX and OneWeb as well as ambitious ...

His theory is that once space debris ... hit by small debris, in a moderate way, but that could have consequences,” Verspieren said. The most famous example of a collision happened in 2009 ...