Plasma is a gas-like state of matter made of free-floating negative electrons ... satellite will be dedicated to detection of space debris too small to be seen from the ground," he said.

A recent paper in the journal Science calling for an international treaty to address space debris says there might be 100 trillion pieces of junk floating ... for removing small debris, and ...

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 ...

There’s such a massive mess of space junk floating around the planet that scientists ... will have its own visible rings, but instead of small chunks of ice and space rocks like some other ...

Space junk does seem to be a growing problem. The target for a space debris cleanup mission is apparently in pieces. A leftover rocket adapter, expected to be removed from low Earth orbit in 2026 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...