While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Space junk is a very real problem. It might sound silly to think that the space around ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earth’s orbit is absolutely littered with space junk, and every new rocket we send ...

While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space junk. A group of researchers from the University of British Columbia ...

As global warming continues, the upper atmosphere will cool and become less dense, reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers ...

Many space people are worried about a space junk catastrophe called the Kessler Syndrome. Lower orbits reduce the risk of the Kessler syndrome. Here are considerations of fuel needs and aerodynamic ...

Floridians across the coast witnessed flaming space debris falling from the sky. So, what would happen if a piece of a rocket, or a satellite, or even an asteroid hit your home or car? It is rare ...

Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are making the upper atmosphere thinner, decreasing its ability to pull space junk out of orbit. As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely ...

About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple of decades, hundreds of these dead satellites have collided to create millions of pieces of shrapnel. That ...