Human trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space Center is working on tackling the issue - and they just got a boost from SpaceX. Their RemoveDEBRIS technology...
Human trash now litters space in the form of broken hardware and spacecrafts circling Earth. But the Surrey Space Center, based at the University of Surrey, and partners aim to tackle the issue - and they just got a boost...
The aeronautics company Airbus is currently testing a three-foot harpoon they hope will catch the nonfunctional satellite Envisat and pull it back to Earth...
Not only do we need to worry about pollution on Earth, but also in space. A team of six scientists in China are working on a very science-fiction-sounding solution: zapping that space trash with lasers. Could a space-based...
China lost control of their first space station Tiangong-1 in 2016 - and now pieces of it could come crashing back down to Earth. Research organization Aerospace Corporation recently predicted the station could re-enter our...
Japan's experiment to clean up space junk earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies haven't given up on the problem yet...
Japan's experiment to clean up space debris earlier this year may have ended in failure, but the world's space agencies haven't given up on the problem yet...
We've built cities that do us harm, according to groundbreaking Netherlands designer Daan Roosegaarde. Along with his team at Studio Roosegaarde, he's tackling the pollution we've generated in our metropolises, through the...
News that an unmanned failed Russian space probe — the Phobos-Grunt, or Phobos-Ground in English — was about to smack into Earth shot like wildfire through the airwaves last week as the truth emerged that the...
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