
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...

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's experimental mission to clean up space junk ends in failure
An experimental effort to remove five decades worth of space junk orbiting Earth has met with failure due to technical...

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...

Floating 'space nation' Asgardia promises to guard Earth from asteroids
Although this headline sounds as though it’s been ripped from a science fiction film script, we can assure you...

This new rocket thruster is powered by space junk
What do Australia, space junk, and the journey to Mars have in common? Well, that sort of remains to be seen. Over...

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...

Space Scientists Develop Harpoon System to Capture Rogue Satellites and Clean up Space Junk
Space junkhas rapidly become a major problem for the world's space agencies. Decades of satellite launches and...

DARPA's Phoenix Spacecraft Cannibalizes And Recycles Derelict Satellites
Space agencies such as NASA are constantly faced the issue of old satellites decaying in orbit and falling to Earth....