Latest News About Space Junk and Orbital Debris

Satellites in SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation made nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in the last six months, about double the number made in the previous half-year.

The next quarter-century in space exploration could be historic, the era in which humanity finally establishes a foothold on the moon and Mars.

A Saskatchewan farmer's near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junk.

Astroscale's ADRAS-J spacecraft snapped a striking image of a rocket body floating lifeless above a blue-and-white Earth, with the sun's glare reflecting off of it.

Two Chinese astronauts continued installing space debris protection outside the nation's Tiangong space station during a July 3 EVA.

SpaceX has established a debris hotline and a special email address to aid folks who may have found fallen pieces of the company's hardware.

A Florida family has filed a claim with NASA after discarded components from the International Space Station crashed through their house.

A discarded Japanese rocket was recently imaged up close by the ADRAS-J mission.

Japan plans to launch the world's first wooden satellite this year, in an effort to reduce the environmental impacts of reentering spacecraft.

A large piece of debris was found on a mountainside in North Carolina last week, suspected to be left over from the reentry of SpaceX's Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station.