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

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

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

Even if all space launches were halted today, the threat wouldn’t stop. Existing debris continues to collide and fragment ...

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. Collisions with spacecraft risks disrupting critical navigation and ...

Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

The number of such objects tracked by space surveillance networks increased about 8% last year to around 40 000, ESA said.

The orbit of the Earth is filling with more and more space junk, threatening operational satellites and the International ...

If waste disposal is a major environmental challenge across the world, rapid accumulation of junk in outer space is also a ...

PERSEI Space, a startup supported by the European Space Agency and UC3M, is developing a breakthrough solution to tackle ...

Intact satellites or rocket bodies are now re-entering the atmosphere on average more than three times a day. Even without ...

Sustainability in space and the fight against the accumulation of waste produced in Earth orbit are the objectives pursued by ...