
Studio Roosegaarde wants to turn space waste into shooting stars and 3D-printed housing
At the Space Waste Lab Symposium in Almere, Netherlands, artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde...

Studio Roosegaarde’s laser light art tracks floating space waste in the sky
A dazzling neon green light show is illuminating the night skies in Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s latest...

SpaceX Falcon 9 just rocketed a harpoon and net into orbit to hunt space junk
Human trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space...

Airbus wants to harpoon a satellite and bring it back to Earth
The aeronautics company Airbus is currently testing a three-foot harpoon they hope will catch the nonfunctional...

Humans have already dumped 400,000 pounds of trash on the Moon
Pollution isn't just Earth's problem anymore. Despite not having established a permanent lunar residency, humans...

China wants to destroy space junk with giant lasers
Not only do we need to worry about pollution on Earth, but also in space. A team of six scientists in China are...

Chinese space station could plummet back to Earth in March
China lost control of their first space station Tiangong-1 in 2016 - and now pieces of it could come crashing back...

ESA unveils magnetic space tug to corral broken satellites drifting in space
Japan's experiment to clean up space junk earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies...

Japan successfully orbits giant space junk collector
Around 100 million pieces of trash cast off from satellites and rockets are circulating in space, causing hundreds...

Critics are fuming over potentially toxic Russian rocket about to crash in the Arctic
Parts of a Russian rocket are expected to crash in Canadian Arctic waters this weekend. The rocket will be launching...

You Won't Believe How Much Space Junk is Orbiting the Earth Right Now
Whether you saw the movie Gravity or not, you probably already know that space debris can be a big problem. But...

Switzerland to Launch 'Janitor' Satellite to Collect 370,000 Pieces of Space Junk Orbiting Earth
Space junk is an ongoing problem for the world's space administrations as decades worth of satellite launches and...

New Research Finds Climate Change is Disrupting Satellites and Space Debris in the Atmosphere
Climate change is not just affecting what is happening on the surface of the Earth, but also what is taking place...

NASA Announces Plans to Launch the Largest Solar Sail Ever Created
Solar activity sometimes causes disturbances through massive flares, but the energy can also be used to increase...