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Latest News About Space Junk and Orbital Debris
The amount of trash in Earth orbit, from spent rocket stages, broken satellites and micrometeoroids, is growing. Scientists are working on methods to combat the threat of space junk and orbital debris collisions.
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Skywatchers who have yet to spot NASA's NanoSail-D satellite, take heart -- the little spacecraft will be aloft for a few more months yet.
Pentagon's swift telescopes watch out for the watchers.
As the solar cycle ramps up, astronauts may well have more potentially dangerous encounters with space debris.
NASA now says, debris from a Chinese weather satellite won't endanger the International Space Station crew today.
A piece of an old Chinese satellite will pass the station this afternoon.
A space traffic accident only begets more such accidents.
Working together would prevent space debris collisions and misunderstandings between nations.
Ground-based lasers may be the key to managing the space junk menace.
Two satellite companies have announced a new deal to launch the first spacecraft to refuel other satellites in orbit.
Hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk clog the corridors of orbit around Earth.
The upcoming official strategy for protecting the nation's space assets will likely have a military focus.
Intelsat's "zombie" Galaxy 15 satellite that spent months adrift in orbit recently came back to life by resetting itself after an unprecedented malfunction.
What began as a minor trash problem in space has now developed into a full-blown threat.
The growing threat of space junk to satellites and spacecraft may need a federal Superfund solution, a new report finds.
The Perseid meteor shower may dazzle skywatchers during its peak tonight, but it poses no threat to astronauts in space, NASA says.
Scientists are working to identify which bits of orbital rubbish to pluck from the heavens first. But a new study suggests they're fighting an uphill battle.
NASA is tracking a piece of Chinese space junk that is headed uncomfortably close to the International Space Station and may force the outpost's crew to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats as a precaution.
Two Russian cosmonauts have accidentally lost a tool in space while spacewalking outside the International Space Station early Tuesday.
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