Tens of thousands of pieces of space debris are hurtling around Earth right now. These defunct satellites, spent rocket ...

The newest piece of big Chinese space junk will fall back to Earth around the end of the month, experts predict. The object in question is the roughly 25-ton (22.5 metric tons) core stage of the ...

Over 6,600 tons of space junk are orbiting Earth, posing a threat to satellites and future space missions. Learn about the growing problem and cleanup efforts.

As the years pass, humanity is sending more junk into space than ever before and scientists are on edge because it poses a threat to us.

It’s no question that we have begun polluting the space around Earth. While governments around the world have participated in cataloging and tracking the largest orbiting hazards, astronomers ...

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there?

Near-Earth orbit is even more congested than the space between Earth and the Moon. It’s from 100 to 500 miles straight up, compared with 240,000 miles to the Moon.

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...

A new European Space Agency report states Earth's orbit could become 'unusable' due to space debris.

Space junk is a term for what scientists call “orbital debris, ”and according to NASA, there are millions of pieces of it floating around. It’s specifically in low Earth orbit, and although ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

While thinking of space as one big rubbish tip isn’t nice, one perk of all this cosmic filth is meteor showers, which light ...