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

There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space ...

The approximately eight-minute-long film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" attempts to answer its conjecture with supportive statistics and orbital projections ... things in Earth orbit tend ...

The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space but gets ...

As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely operate in near-Earth space ... into the problem and estimated the ...

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

Environmental activists often say that humans have left an indelible mark on the planet we occupy and evidence of our existence will remain long after we’re gone. However, there is a growing problem ...

It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially shrinking the usable space for satellite in low Earth orbit ... could diminish available orbital space by anywhere ...