"Do we react for everything which has a chance to reach the ground? Or do we react only for the very large objects, as we did ...

Low Earth orbit has quietly become one of the most crowded and hazardous environments humanity has ever created, with an ...

Given the mounting number of objects in orbit, this is likely to be a more regular occurrence. It's costly in terms of damage ...

Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently ...

You might think space as a vast emptiness. But according to the European Space Agency, it's getting incredibly crowded – at least around our planet. A European Space Agency report released April 1 ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour. The objects, which range from inactive satellites to fragments of equipment ...

Seismometers over Los Angeles awakened on April 2, 2024, with unusual blips. An earthquake would have been a reasonable cause for the activity, but the signals didn’t appear along fault lines. The ...

On a special episode (first released on April 3, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: What happens when today’s treasure – satellites that give us access to broadband internet and accurate weather forecasts ...