A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology ...

We could also tax space junk offenders, making them pay for not just the debris they leave in space, but for the duration they leave it in space, thus incentivizing them to clean up their mess ...

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So cleaning up the debris has become a priority, and there are teams from Colorado and beyond working on technology such as a “space harpoon” to move junk out of the way and a “space fence ...

“Cleaning up space debris is not optional,” explained associate professor Dr. Carolin Frueh of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who was not involved in the report.

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on ...

The space industry wants to clean up orbit paths cluttered with debris. The space industry met in Paris in January and agreed to protect the most frequently used orbit paths, which are full of debris.

Although assessing the quantity of space debris can be challenging due to its dimension, ESA's statistical model has ...

There are around 23,000 objects larger than 10 cm (4 inches) and about 100 million pieces of debris larger than 1 mm (0.04 inches). Tiny pieces of junk might not seem like a big issue, but that ...

Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon.

Space junk also takes more than just a broom to clean up. A Japanese experiment expected to deploy last week was designed to test out a 70 meter electromagnetic tether that could be used to drag ...

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean ...