A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close ...

Astroscale Holdings, the parent company of several international space junk removal startups, has received approval from the ...

Astronomers laud NASA's plan to protect the space environment, but the agency needs to act fast to make a difference.

For the first time, a spacecraft is capturing photos of pieces of space junk in the void of space as the company Astroscale plans to get even closer to addressing the growing problem of space debris ...

China's space agency says it has successfully repaired damage to its space station after it was struck by space debris.

"Behold, the world's first image of space debris captured through rendezvous and proximity operations during our ADRAS-J mission." ...

The two satellites came to within less than 30 feet of each other back in February, a distance far closer than initial ...

NASA has completed its analysis of an object that fell from space and crashed through a Florida man's roof, confirming it is ...

Space junk just got an epic close-up. The ADRAS-J satellite, operated by the Japanese company Astroscale, successfully maneuvered to within a few hundred meters of a discarded rocket body this ...

A spacecraft has carefully approached and imaged a large hunk of metal orbiting Earth — a step in tackling humanity's mounting space junk woes. The delicate space mission, undertaken by the ...

The chances of getting hit by space junk are slim, but they’re not zero. On average, 200 to 400 human-built objects reenter through Earth’s atmosphere every year, and, if you’re very unlucky ...