Miles of beaches were littered with garbage and debris following a SpaceX Starship explosion, occurring just before an ...

There's a small crisis emerging in outer space ... for the final approach and eventual docking with a floating chunk of space junk. This mission will launch in 2027 and will bring the H-IIA ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about ... of space debris, as small as a millimeter ...

Space debris — non-functioning manmade materials floating around space — can pose ... event still circulate in orbit, posing a small but potential threat to other functioning spacecraft ...

These explosions add to the 170 million pieces of 1-millimeter debris currently floating in space ... team observed a small but temporary reduction in power—space agencies could ignore it ...

So for really large pieces of space junk, so I'm talking large satellites that are abandoned or we have upper stage rocket bodies that are floating ... down to the really small scales.

And there are more and more companies popping up, small startups popping up, that are trying to remove this debris — but that is very expensive," he said. Tiwari labeled space junk "a ...

"They all travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft, which is a dramatic potential danger to all space ...