India’s space programme has built a reputation for precision, efficiency, and steady progress over the decades. From launching satellites for other countries to expanding its own navigation and ...

A recent study has uncovered a previously unnoticed population of small debris in geostationary orbit (GEO), where vital ...

Alastair Bonnett's forthcoming book New Ruins looks at how the debris of our disposable culture is changing the world. In this extract, he focuses on space junk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space junk is perhaps a silly-sounding name, and while it's not new, the rise of private aerospace firms has exacerbated this very ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the Moon. Now it has more than 15,000 – about 10,000 of which are owned by ...

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...

The Australian Space Agency confirmed on it was investigating six pieces of suspected space debris found washed up on Queensland beaches ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

A Starlink satellite burned up over Switzerland on Tuesday evening. Satellites are by no means the only space debris that pose a danger to the Earth.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. China routinely sends ...

There’s a lot of trash on the Moon right now—including nearly 100 bags of human waste—and with countries around the globe traveling to the Moon, there’s going to be a lot more, both on the lunar ...