Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The ...

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

The ESA has published the Space Environment Report 2025. It warns that some orbits are becoming cramped and calls for the ...

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean enough to ...

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...