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

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“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.

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 ...

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.

Beyond our planet’s atmosphere is a universe of mystery. While humans have spent a lot of time and money sending rockets and ...

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 ...

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.

ClearSpace-1 is part of the first-ever mission to remove existing space debris from orbit through a highly precise and close proximity operation. The upcoming cleanup mission will target a defunct ...

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

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 ...