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A piece of space junk smacked into the robotic arm on the International Space Station, but near-term operations should not be affected.

A refrigerator-sized spacecraft could eventually help in cleaning up dangerous debris in space. In a test, RemoveDebris cast a net around a dummy satellite to

Millions of naturally occurring micrometeoroids and man-made debris orbit the Earth. Orbital debris consists of remnants from previous missions. These

Find out more about the Astroscale collaboration aimned at improving Earth's orbital environment from Engineering at the University of Southampton.

The space debris problem has only gotten worse, and as incidents this year show. What will it take for space agencies and private companies to change their...

Dec 24, 2025 - Based on the latest intelligence reports, Russia is developing a weapon that can damage satellites, such as Starlink constellation, by throwing clouds of small...

The recent World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos published a report - Clear Orbit, Secure Future: A Call to Action on Space Debris - produced in partnership with

Running hundreds of simulations on TACC supercomputers, University of Texas mechanical engineering professor Eric Fahrenthold assisted NASA in the development...