A new Nature Communications study shows that escrow-based performance bonds of around $200,000 per satellite could cut ...

The halo of junk around Earth is growing bigger. There are no two ways about that. In fact, those headed into space are starting to ask: What are we going to do about this? There are more than 50,000 ...

Picture a collision at 15,000 miles per hour between a dead Soviet satellite and a discarded rocket stage. The impact doesn’t make a sound in the vacuum, but it creates thousands of new projectiles, ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...