In the first months of 2026, several chunks of spent rocket hardware tumbled back into the atmosphere weeks earlier than ...
A new study links the sun's 11-year cycle to accelerated orbital loss, with debris falling faster once sunspot numbers near their cycle peak.
It’s one extraordinary thing to launch the product of mankind’s brilliant minds into the cosmos, but it’s another to keep track of it long after the mission ends. We’ve explored before how important ...
The BriefSpace junk is creating dangerous hazards in low-earth orbit.Debris is rapidly growing in space, but removal technology hasn’t caught up.A new report says about half of the objects in space ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms. Scientists ...
(CNN) — Space junk falling out of orbit and crashing toward Earth is a growing threat. Indeed, old satellites and spacecraft parts reenter our planet’s atmosphere more than three times a day. When ...