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

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

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

The UK has launched a £75.6 million bid to build a spaceship to clear space debris, including satellites. Officials say the ...

In 2020, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to "purchase a unique service: the ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each ...

From reducing space junk cluttering the skies to securing satellites from cyber-attacks, the EU Wednesday laid out plans to ...

Satellites that retire are deorbited into a graveyard orbit within 25 years of their missions ending. This is the case with ...

There are more than 10,000 satellites now in orbit and growing space junk to match. In recent years, more companies — most notably Elon Musk’s Starlink — have ventured into low-Earth orbit, from where ...

South African aerospace firm CubeSpace says it is on track to reach a valuation of $1 billion (R18 billion) and achieve ...

Researchers have developed a way to use high-frequency electromagnetic waves to visualize objects that are hidden from view – ...