Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

Any debris created by damaged satellites measuring larger than 1 cm can pose huge threats to other active, low-orbiting ...

SPACE debris raining down on Earth is increasingly at risk of causing “catastrophic” collisions with aircraft, a damning new ...

As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.

A sharp rise in the number of rocket launches has fuelled uncontrolled reentries of space debris - chunks of metal and machinery. Orange balls of light fly across the sky as debris from a SpaceX ...