A newly designed European Space Agency robot will drag the junk back toward Earth, where it will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere or drop into the ocean. NBC News’ Josh Lederman reports.Aug. 24 ...

Space may seem nearly endless, but our orbit is finite. With no international laws in place to clean up debris, the responsibility must be shared. The U.S. Space Force is doing their part by ...

Space junk is a huge concern for those who want to put anything into orbit or keep it there. Here are a few times that space ...

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The moon is hostile. A newly found cave could be a lifesaver. NASA has a plan to clean up space junk—but is going green enough? NASA has a plan to clean up space junk—but is going green enough?

This debris - of which there is roughly ... the idea is that we can do the exact same thing for space - a space sweeping service which can clean up as we go," said Harriet Brettle, the head ...

Space debris in such low orbits also re-enters Earth's atmosphere relatively quickly and burns up, resulting in a 'natural cleaning effect'. The ISS is designed to withstand impacts from pieces of ...

Earth's orbit desperately needs someone to take out the trash. A Japanese company is trying to keep the problem from getting worse. The company, called Astroscale, has designed a spacecraft with a ...

There has been much talk about the need to clean up space, but the Surrey satellite ... Shortly, RemoveDebris will test a new camera system to track space junk - again, on a target it has brought ...

Earth's orbit desperately needs someone to take out the trash. A Japanese company is trying to keep the problem from getting worse. The company, called Astroscale, has designed a spacecraft with a ...