Now, US defence giant Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT +0.05% has joined with a Canberra-based tech company to build a tracking station in the Australian Outback that can follow debris as small as a baseball ...
Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense. A photo composite ...
Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects, ...
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Space junk could soon delay flights like severe weather does
Airlines have long treated thunderstorms, snow and volcanic ash as the main reasons to slow or stop flights. Now a new hazard ...
Cutting space-tracking efforts risks collisions — and U.S. leadership in commercializing outer space. September 1, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDTToday at 7:00 a.m. EDT ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 14, 2023. In 2024, a farmer in Saskatchewan found a piece of one of the company's re-entry ...
NASA is keeping a close eye on two pieces of space junk expected to whiz by the International Space Station in back-to-back passes, and the station may even have to dodge the orbital debris. The ...
B.C. researchers have found there is a 26 per cent chance space junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy airspace filled with passenger jets — including Metro Vancouver. The resulting ...
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What Is Space Junk, and What Can Be Done About It?
Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently ...
A Turkish amateur's discovery rocked the astronomy world—until it turned out to be Elon Musk’s old Tesla floating through the void, not a menacing space rock. Six years after its iconic SpaceX launch, ...
A piece of space junk found on October 18 in Western Australia's remote Pilbara region. WA Police The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia’s ...
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