Scientists have called for the designation of a new United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with the aim to conserve and sustainably use ...

The United Nations has 17 sustainable development goals that all member states have signed up to in an effort to balance ...

A surveillance camera shakes as a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocks the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities. Can we pretend that derelict satellites in the night sky ...

The increasing amount of debris has heightened fears about the "Kessler syndrome". Named after an American astrophysicist ...

Space debris threatens satellites and astronauts, highlighting the urgency to prevent cascading collisions in orbit.

This is how debris finds itself languishing in space—and what some organizations are doing to mitigate the problem.

A half-ton piece of space junk crashed into a Kenyan village this week. Initial reports from the Kenya Space Agency were ...

A 1,100-pound metal ring from a rocket smashed in to a Kenyan village, where it startled residents and flattened trees ...

Talk about a close call: a large metal ring suspected to be space debris, measuring around 8 feet wide and weighing 1,100 lbs ...

A red-hot piece of space debris that weighs half a tonne plummeted to Earth this week, landing in a remote Kenyan village.

No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is ...

All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...