More than 130 million pieces of space debris are currently orbiting Earth. As space exploration increases, researchers warn that we need to clean up the debris before the situation worsens. There is now more traffic in the lunar region — the space between …

… the growing clouds of metallic junk orbiting our planet, Chris Hadfield, the …

… like an orbiting hunk of junk. Orbital carrier can be the savior …

A Japanese venture firm aiming to develop technology to remove space junk says its satellite successfully took close-up photos of rocket debris orbiting the Earth. Astroscale Japan released the images on Tuesday. They show the second stage of an H2A rocket …

… like an orbiting hunk of junk. Orbital carrier can be the savior …

Litter is not just a terrestrial problem, it seems. International space agencies, governments and the space community around the world are increasingly worried over the 170 million pieces of junk swirling around the earth's orbit.It can be in the form …

ClearSpace and other companies are developing satellites able to grab big pieces of space debris and safely dispose of them. “We have a giant claw, basically,” says Holmes. “We go and grab the bits and pull them down… into the top of the atmosphere so they …

It is hard to believe that there is a huge amount of space debris floating above our heads, and all these “time bombs”, as some of them call it, have been stuck in low Earth orbit in less than 75 years. And with more and more satellites being launched …

From spent rocket boosters to dead Soviet spy satellites, the sheer volume of space junk floating above our heads is scarcely believable. What's even harder to comprehend is that these 'ticking time bombs', as some of the debris has been dubbed …