As Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...

By Kantaro Komiya and Nivedita Bhattacharjee TOKYO/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Japan's Astroscale, a company specialised in ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...

A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth’s orbit because of climate change. The study, recently published in Nature ...

India has opened the country's space sector to private players beyond the state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation ...

Hypervelocity impacts from space debris pose significant risks to spacecraft and satellites in outer space. To address this ...

Climate change isn’t just affecting Earth, it’s reshaping space as well. A new MIT study reveals that rising greenhouse gas ...

Global warming is causing space debris to linger above the planet for longer periods of time, leaving less space for functioning satellites and posing a growing problem for the long-term use of ...

Astroscale and Bellatrix Aerospace have signed an MoU to advance orbital debris removal and satellite services. This ...