This "spacecraft cemetery" is about 1,450 miles away from any piece of land and home to hundreds of dead satellites. Space agencies and companies are concerned about space junk and working on ways ...

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

Despite its reputation, outer space is far from empty, and the region around our planet is particularly riddled with space debris.

so it didn't become a space debris hazard in orbit. Flight controllers directed the rocket stage to maneuver into a collision course with the Indian Ocean, then vent off any remaining propellant ...

In fact, a 23-ton piece of space debris from a Chinese rocket that unexpectedly broke apart "fell — safely, thankfully — into the south-central Pacific Ocean" in November, she adds ...

The Progress MS-18 spacecraft, which earlier on Wednesday separated from the International Space Station, has been dumped in the Pacific Ocean far ... with space debris. Earlier, TASS special ...

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. If just one piece collides with a spacecraft, it can disrupt critical navigation systems. The European Space Agency is calling for urgent ...

Some of those satellites have already burned up in the atmosphere or fallen back to Earth, often into the ocean, but more than 13,000 are still up there. About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as ...

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 ...

And experts warn that the number of objects returning from space is set to increase ... is either covered with ocean or uninhabited land, the chances of a piece of junk landing on somebody's ...