Portal Space Systems is partnering with Paladin Space on a commercial service that would round up and dispose of orbital ...

Thousands of satellites are being launched into space at low Earth orbit, joining hundreds of thousands of pieces of space ...

Space junk is perhaps a silly-sounding name, and while it's not new, the rise of private aerospace firms has exacerbated this very real and serious problem. Also called "space debris," human-made ...

Dots representing tracked bits of space junk encircle the planet. Most of these objects are concentrated in low Earth orbit — the region of space within 1,200 miles of the Earth's surface. - NASA ODPO ...

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about ...

Low Earth orbit no longer feels distant or empty. On a clear November night, a Falcon 9 rose from Cape Canaveral and released 29 Starlink satellites into a busy band of sky about 340 miles up. The ...

SpaceX opposed the agency's proposed rules, which would have required the safe removal of rocket parts from orbit.

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...

India’s space programme has built a reputation for precision, efficiency, and steady progress over the decades. From ...

ISRO reveals the growing issue of dead satellites and space debris orbiting Earth, highlighting efforts and missions to track ...

Materials scientist Dr. Yige Sun, from the Department of Materials and Linacre College at the University of Oxford, and the ...