Japan has a remarkable idea for disposing of space junk and debris without the need to ever come into contact with it, which ...

Astroscale is a 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair winner for developing a satellite designed to rendezvous with space junk, with the ...

With a modest amount of thrust and power, a new ion engine system could get rid of 1-ton pieces of space junk in less than ...

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

Orbit around Earth is filled with space junk - debris moving faster than bullets. This video explains the threat and how new technology could finally clean it up. New details in Charlie Kirk shooting ...

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 ...

Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those launches weren't registered internationally? While more and more orbital objects ...

Space Command is responsible for military operations beyond Earth's atmosphere, or about 62 miles and higher. Trump re-established Space Command in 2019 during his first term. It was originally ...

Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, commander of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, speaking at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Ala., discussed new initiatives to grow the Army's ...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Space Command’s headquarters would move from Colorado to Alabama — capping off a yearslong fight over where the command should be based. While Space ...

One of the most important satellite launches of all time was that of Sputnik. When the Soviet satellite became the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth on October 4, 1957, space must have seemed ...

The corporate space world tired Bianca Cefalo to the point that she found it easier to literally start her own space company and launch objects into orbit. Cefalo is the founder of Space DOTs, which ...