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A serious breach of space etiquette; According to Business Insider, China neglected to add a controlled re-entry package to their recent launch mission...

Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in Earth’s orbit threatening spacecraft safety American Institute of Physics WASHINGTON,...

At the Space Waste Lab Symposium in Almere, Netherlands, artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde announced his creative new solutions for reducing space waste...

A dazzling neon green light show is illuminating the night skies in Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s latest large-scale art installation, the Space Waste Lab Performance...

Human trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space Center is working on tackling the issue - and they just got a boost from SpaceX. Their RemoveDEBRIS technology...

Human trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space Center, based at the University of Surrey, and partners aim to tackle the issue - and they just got a boost...

The aeronautics company Airbus is currently testing a three-foot harpoon they hope will catch the nonfunctional satellite Envisat and pull it back to Earth...

Not only do we need to worry about pollution on Earth, but also in space. A team of six scientists in China are working on a very science-fiction-sounding solution: zapping that space trash with lasers. Could a space-based...

China lost control of their first space station Tiangong-1 in 2016 - and now pieces of it could come crashing back down to Earth. Research organization Aerospace Corporation recently predicted the station could re-enter our...

Japan's experiment to clean up space junk earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies haven't given up on the problem yet...

Japan's experiment to clean up space debris earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies haven't given up on the problem yet...

After hearing what they thought was thunder, some Vietnam residents discovered three mysterious metal orbs ranging in size from just 9oz to 99lbs. The spheres reportedly fell from the sky and two of them landed in residential...

A team of Chinese researchers thinks they have developed a solution to the problem of ‘space junk.’ Picture a giant space vacuum cleaner, not entirely unlike the one pictured in the 1987 classic film Spaceballs, that...

Whether you saw the movie Gravity or not, you probably already know that space debris can be a big problem. But until you see a visual showing just how ridiculously packed the Earth’s atmosphere is, it is hard to grasp...

Whether you saw the movie Gravity or not, you probably already know that space debris can be a big problem. But until you see a visual showing just how ridiculously packed the Earth’s atmosphere is, it is hard to understand...