Earth; Space Junk Around Earth on the Rise, Experts Say. News. By Tariq Malik published 29 April 2009 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

Low-Earth orbit, a narrow band of space around Earth, is crowded with thousands of tons of space junk. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Like many other space experts, I’m concerned about the lack of governance around space debris. Space is getting crowded. People think of space as vast and empty, but the near-Earth environment ...

In case you hadn’t already heard: Space junk is becoming a real problem. There’s so much manmade trash floating around in Earth’s orbit that it’s actually posing a danger to future space ...

China's Tiangong-1 space station will soon crash to Earth, but it's only one 9.4-ton piece of space debris that vastly outnumbers active satellites in orbit.

Space junk rips around LEO at speeds exceeding 17,500 miles per hour — the minimum velocity required to resist falling back into Earth's gravity well. At that ferocious speed, a fleck of paint ...

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?Is the accumulation ...

Litter from space. Australia holds the record in the category of "who can be hit by the biggest piece of space junk." In 1979, the 77-ton U.S. space station SkyLab disintegrated over Western ...

Space junk is a serious problem.The unregulated orbital trash now permeates a region of space around Earth called low Earth orbit, or LEO. "LEO is an orbital space junk yard," NASA explained.

We're building a Great Garbage Shell around the Earth, full of defunct satellites and tiny pieces of junk. Space Has Become a Junkyard, and It's Getting Worse - CNET X ...

Now, though, a controversial new paper warns that falling space junk could actually weaken Earth’s magnetic field. It’s an intriguing proposition and one that has garnered some support as well ...