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 ...

Space Junk Clean Up: 7 Wild Ways to Destroy Orbital Debris. Countdowns. By Elizabeth Howell published 3 March 2014 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The junk-on-junk collision created even more space junk, not to mention a headache for the scientists working on the ESA's clean up mission.

Although assessing the quantity of space debris can be challenging due to its dimension, ESA's statistical model has estimated that there are 1.1 million pieces of debris from 1 to 10 cm, flying ...