It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ...

When astronomer Samantha Lawler got an email from a journalist in May 2024 saying that space junk may have landed in a farmer ...

Also called space debris, space junk is comprised of non-operational satellites and other human-made objects that continue to hurtle around Earth's orbit long after they served their purpose.

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, with an estimated 45,700 objects larger than 3 inches (10 centimeters ...

Space junk can be as small as a paint fleck or as large as an abandoned rocket launch vehicle; no matter the size, orbital debris poses a significant threat to the astronauts and spacecraft that ...

There’s such a massive mess of space junk floating around the planet that scientists now say it could ruin their view of the stars. A long-defunct “grandfather” satellite ERS-2 fell to Earth ...

Also: NASA says space junk is one of the great challenges of our time.Here's why. Jah is the chief scientist for Privateer, a recently launched company backed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak ...

The ISS performed its 39th ever space junk collision avoidance maneuver on Nov. 19. Although it was the first such maneuver in 2024, it may not be the last, experts say.

Earth’s space junk problem is getting worse; A piece of space junk hit the Moon. Oddly, scientists are elated; A newly-launched spacecraft will clean up space junk orbiting Earth. Here’s how ...

Space Junk Is Cluttering Up The Final Frontier : Short Wave Since the dawn of Sputnik in 1957, space-faring nations have been filling Earth's orbit with satellites. Think GPS, weather forecasting ...

About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need.

Or in other words, where does all that space junk go, and what does climate change have to do with it? Here to discuss the impact of global warming on satellites is Will Parker, ...