As Beijing prepares to tackle space debris, transparency and trust will determine whether the effort is viewed as stewardship ...

Hopefully, this new space age we're in will incentivize governments to preemptively work out some new treaties or agreements.

Old rocket parts and decommissioned satellites are whizzing around in low Earth orbit, where they risk colliding with the ...

A new paper has listed the top 50 most problematic pieces of space debris currently in low Earth orbit (LEO). Most of them ...

We have to book ground-station passes, which costs money. Sometimes we even have to switch off the acquisition of scientific ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to avoid that fate for future spacefarers, and has created the Zero Debris Charter as ...

As satellites, spacecraft and supporting ground systems become foundational to global navigation, defense and commerce, the ...

The 50 pieces of debris listed by Darren McKnight's team from the satellite observation company LeoLabs pose the greatest ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...

Surprise Chinese launch sends Shiyan-31 experimental satellite into orbit China conducted an orbital launch Monday with no ...