"Do we react for everything which has a chance to reach the ground? Or do we react only for the very large objects, as we did ...
Could a small piece of metal from space one day strike an airliner? This question is becoming more relevant. Man-made objects ...
Space junk is raising safety concerns for aircraft, with a 2025 study warning of a 26% chance debris could pass through busy ...
Airlines have long treated thunderstorms, snow and volcanic ash as the main reasons to slow or stop flights. Now a new hazard ...
ESA’s Zero Debris Vision sets six priority goals: preventing debris release, ensuring clearance at end-of-life, preventing ...
Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft has delayed its return mission to Earth after the vessel was possibly hit by tiny bits of space debris, the country's human spaceflight agency ...
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 ...
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...