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

Scientists say defunct satellites and spent rocket stages returning to Earth, from the thousands launched every year, can be ...

Scientists reckon there are 130 million pieces of space junk in the sky, all hurtling through space at 25 times the speed of sound. They could put our whole space programme at risk.

Brands are increasingly exploring the lucrative potential of advertising in space, with companies like StartRocket pursuing ...

The threat of an asteroid hitting Earth is always there, but the danger of falling space junk is growing into a crisis.

Ars Technica has mentioned SpinLaunch, the company that literally wants to yeet satellites into space, in previous Rocket ...

An AI algorithm designed to look for planetary systems that could host Earth-like, habitable zone planets, has found 44 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions—and it could change our ...