Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on the ...

Space is a useful place to put things like satellites that enable global communication, but there's also a lot of trash up ...

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...

Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris put ...

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean enough to ...