In this episode, space junk—why it’s become a big problem and what we can do about it. Plus, wait till you hear what happened with that fragment of space junk the Canadian farmer found in his field.

“Mission Delta 2,” the Space Force’s effort to collect data on objects in space, is preparing to collect public data on the location of debris—so as to avoid future collisions.

There’s a growing problem in space: debris and ballooning satellite populations in low Earth orbit are filling the atmosphere ...

Three weeks ago, while setting a record for the most spacewalks, astronaut Peggy Whitson lost the shield she carried to protect her against being hit by space debris. The space shield floated away, ...

A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been slowly falling toward Earth, on July 3, 2026. Over the coming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are using a new technique to study incoming space debris and its effects on Earth's atmosphere. Observational evidence ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home. The ...

A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been slowly falling toward Earth, on July 3, 2026. Over the coming ...

In March 2026, a SpaceX Starlink satellite suddenly broke apart in orbit at an altitude of approximately 560 kilometers.The satellite had been in orbit for less than a year. The cause is believed to ...