"It’s an area that needs to be discussed further." Experts outline solution to growing ring of space trash orbiting our ...

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out a way to deal with it.

After decades of space exploration, there are now more than 500,000 pieces of artificial debris greater than half an inch in size. Courtesy of NASA Orbital Debris Program Office Earler this month, ...

"I will be sending my bill in the mail -- space trash disposal." July 23, 2007 — -- NASA astronauts at the International Space Station literally took out the trash today when they got rid of two ...

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This is called the Kessler Syndrome, named for the former NASA scientist Donald Kessler, who feared that space junk could ...

A Pentagon report warned that trash in space might bring a halt to commerce and communications on Earth. Noting that space is “increasingly congested and contested,” the Defense Department’s interim U ...

When it comes to human spaceflight, what goes up does indeed need to come down, typically at significant expense on both legs of the journey. A team of NASA engineers and scientists thinks there is a ...