This is how debris finds itself languishing in space—and what some organizations are doing to mitigate the problem.

Falling space debris is increasingly threatening airplanes, researchers say Rocket bodies tend to be massive and heat resistant, posing an increased risk.

The ESA is calling for urgent action.Every year, one satellite is destroyed by a space junk collision. Combined with increasing frequency of commercial space launches, which now account for most ...

Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The Excerpt.

Things have been falling out of the sky of late. Fortunately, no one has been hurt, but two recent space debris events offer a good reminder that what goes up often does come down. This past ...

About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need.

Space junk is a problem that just won’t go away, and it keeps getting worse. Debris orbiting Earth makes it difficult for space agencies and companies to launch missions, risking damage to ...

Falling space junk produced by rocket launches poses a risk to the aviation industry—with a roughly one-in-four annual chance that a piece of debris will pass through busy airspace. This is the ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Space debris plummeting back to Earth could be a growing problem for aircraft, researchers warned in a new study. The study authors, all affiliated with Canada's University of British Columbia ...

The increasing risk of space junk hitting a plane when it falls back to earth comes as private space exploration ramps up and the number of flights increases.

White dwarf stars are messy eaters, and the crumbs on their faces could reveal the origins of planets’ cores. When University of Cambridge astronomer Amy Bonsor and her colleagues studied the ...