Airlines are being told to prepare for a future in which the biggest threat to on-time departures is not weather or crew shortages, but fragments of rockets and satellites falling back to Earth.

When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be ...

Space debris has been a major safety concern for operations for years now, but SpaceX and Starlink think they've found a way ...

When a Russian satellite shattered in orbit, the fragments did not simply drift away into the void. They spread into busy ...

Earth is surrounded by human-made debris that orbits our planet. The problem is worsening every year, and 2025 was no different. Space debris experts say nearly 130 million pieces of orbital junk are ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...