Space debris or orbital debris, also called space junk and space waste, are the objects in orbit around Earth created by man that no longer serve any useful purpose.

So once again Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket experiences a “rapid unplanned disassembly” (“Starship test flight ends with another explosion”).b In a way, this is understandable. Musk has been ...

Metaphors bridge us from the known to the less known. Some metaphors are more like highways than bridges, as in this piece by Austin Kleon on soup. “Here’s the writer Charlie Fletcher: ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Singapore is a 279-square-mile island, which means open space is a precious rarity. To combat growing landfills, the country instituted a waste-to-energy system in ...

The Senate minority leader’s shocking decision to throw in the towel during a critical House vote last week has The New ...

A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist is participating in a U.S. government effort to design a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter ...