The aviation industry is taking space debris into more consideration when making decisions to close airspace. In 2022, Spain and France closed some of the countries' airspace when a 20-ton rocket ...

The debris came from a Chinese Long March 5B rocket launched on July 24 to deliver a module to the country's new Tiangong space station. The large rocket has a core stage and four solid rocket ...

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 ...

China obliterating one of its Fengyun weather satellites resulted in approximately 3,000 trackable bits of debris, 2,700 of which are still in orbit, according to space traffic firm LEO Labs.

Scientists researching ways to recycle space debris 02:34. Space debris plummeting back to Earth could be a growing problem for aircraft, researchers warned in a new study.. The study authors, all ...

NASA's International Space Station still has to dodge this debris to this day. At some point, the heavens above will reach a breaking point. Yes, space is big, but there is so much junk out there.

Key Background. Space debris—sometimes referred to as “space junk”—has become a growing issue for orbiting satellites as more objects are launched from Earth. Since 1957, there have been ...

The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at the 9th European Conference on Space Debris on 1 April 2025.

There are precedents for space junk disrupting air travel. In 2022, for example, a falling 20-tonne fragment of rocket forced the closure of parts of French and Spanish airspace.

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. Collisions with spacecraft risks disrupting critical navigation and environment-monitoring satellites. The ESA is calling for urgent ...

But the debris Bonsor and her colleagues saw slowly sinking into some white dwarfs’ surfaces suggests that the building blocks of planets start forming very soon after the star they’re orbiting.