A US Air Force weather satellite broke up in space last month, shattering into 50 pieces and joining the estimated 130 million bits of "space junk" in the Earth's orbit. The increasing amount of ...

A NASA scientist once warned that orbit could one day collapse under its own debris — a chain reaction of collisions sealing humanity off from space. This video explores how close we truly are to ...

A new paper has listed the top 50 most problematic pieces of space debris currently in low Earth orbit (LEO). Most of them are from the last century and pose a serious risk of breaking into finer, ...