In late 2025, scientists reported that for the first time, they were able to detect concentrations of plastic pollution on ...

More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...

Space debris has been a major safety concern for operations for years now, but SpaceX and Starlink think they've found a way ...

With increased orbital traffic, accurately identifying space debris has become a pressing challenge - a challenge that one ...

NASA’s EMIT sensor uses imaging spectroscopy and spectral libraries to support large-scale tracking of plastic and other marine debris from space.

When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be ...

On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded junkyard, packed with dead satellites, shattered rocket parts, and fragments from past collisions. Scientists ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

NASA scientists are beginning to examine ocean trash from a new perspective, not from ships or beaches, but from orbit. The ...