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NASA has a plan to clean up space junk—but is going green enough?
National Geographic· 3 days agoSpace Force, the rocket part they’re targeting appears to have itself been hit by smaller debris...
A NASA satellite almost got hit by Russian space junk
Quartz· 3 days agoIn late February, NASA’s TIMED spacecraft and the defunct Russian Cosmos 2221 nearly avoided...
NASA satellite's 'shocking' space junk near-miss was even closer than thought
SPACE.com· 6 days ago"We recently learned through analysis that the pass ended up being less than 10 meters [33 feet]...
A Chinese space station got hit by debris and astronauts scrambled to make emergency repairs
Quartz· 7 hours agoChina’s space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings...
Nasa space junk and Russian satellite’s near collision was much closer than thought
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNasa’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics...was an unused Russian satellite launched in...
When Space Junk Hits a Home, Who Pays for Repairs?
newser· 2 days agoNASA says there will be an investigation "to determine the cause of the debris survival and to update modeling and analysis, as needed." With space < ...
NASA says it expected space station garbage to burn up. The debris smashed into a Florida home...
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEuropean Space Agency, which routinely tracks objects in space that are headed for Earth, said in a...
India aims to achieve 'debris-free' space missions by 2030
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoLow Earth orbit is littered with about... rocket stages and dead or malfunctioning satellites...
Low-Earth Orbit Faces a Spiraling Debris Threat
Scientific American· 4 days agoA decade ago the film Gravity dramatized the consequences of space pollution, with an avalanche of space junk sweeping across the sky ...
An orbiter captured images of 'spiders' on Mars in Inca City. But what is it, really?
USA Today· 1 day agoOne look at recent images released by the European Space Agency may cause you to wonder if spiders...