The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a ...

A photo captures Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL freighter being jettisoned away from the International Space Station carrying thousands of pounds of garbage, headed for a fiery demise.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dots representing tracked bits of space junk encircle the planet. Most of these objects are concentrated in low Earth orbit — the ...

Space junk is perhaps a silly-sounding name, and while it's not new, the rise of private aerospace firms has exacerbated this very real and serious problem. Also called "space debris," human-made ...

Whatever the case, a wounded ISS will have been fairly rotten luck. Back in 2017, scientists from NASA and a Russian space contractor put the odds of this worst-case scenario at 1 in 121. As of late ...

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk — remnants of old satellites, rocket stages, and collisions. Traveling at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour, even a tiny fragment can ...

SpaceX opposed the agency's proposed rules, which would have required the safe removal of rocket parts from orbit.

M odern life provides enough for us to worry about without having to add space junk to that list. Unfortunately, it is ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, unless, of course, you're talking about space debris, since it's too tough to acquire without a shuttle or a spaceship. That's a shame because space ...

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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 ...