These nations have yet to reach a consensus on how to mitigate the debris they’ve left behind, and diplomatic efforts to ...

Cleaning up space debris seems rather unnecessary in this perspective, except that even the tiniest chunk travels at orbital velocities of multiple kilometers per second with kinetic energy to spare.

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. Nine in 10 useful satellites are ...

More than 100 partners have signed Europe's Zero Debris Charter, a push to help get Earth's space junk problem under control.

When space debris is created, who is responsible for cleaning it up or monitoring it? In principle, the country that launched the object into space has the burden of responsibility where fault can ...

Astronauts getting stuck in space is more common than you think Astronauts getting stuck in space is more common than you think 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 ...

It's easy to run out of iCloud storage space. No matter if you ... you might be surprised how much junk is on your iCloud account that can be cleaned up. And if you don’t have a lot of junk ...

Picture the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building, with its 4.8 million cubic yards of space under a 550 ... contractors have picked up every broken branch and scrap of debris left behind by Hurricanes ...