A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...

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 ...

Japan's Astroscale , a company specialised in removing orbital junk, has agreed with Bengaluru-based space companies ...

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 ...

Climate change will affect the lifespan of space debris A recently published study shows that future climate change could have an unexpected impact on the safety of satellites sent into space. To ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tokyo-based startup developing space debris removal technologies added that it plans to start removing "space junk" from orbit by the end of March 2028. "We want to realize a service to refuel ...

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 ...