New research examines how smaller satellites in lower orbits could reduce collision risks and debris generation while maintaining high-resolution Earth observation capabilities.

Earth is surrounded by human-made debris that orbits our planet. The problem is worsening every year, and 2025 was no different. Space debris experts say nearly 130 million pieces of orbital junk are zipping around our planet: high-speed leftovers from ...

Space around Earth is filling with discarded hardware, shattered fragments and derelict satellites just as governments and companies race to launch thousands more spacecraft. The risk is no longer abstract: near misses, forced evasive maneuvers and ...

(Gray News) – The risk of space debris falling through airspace is going up in 2026, according to researchers. Experts said spacecraft, or parts of one, fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere once a week on average. Most of this space debris is empty ...

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Anduril Industries said it plans to acquire ExoAnalytic Solutions, a company that operates one of the world’s largest commercial networks of telescopes used to track satellites and space debris, in a move that expands the defense technology firm’s push into national-security space programs.

NASA says its 1,300‑pound Van Allen Probe A is making an uncontrolled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. Most of the spacecraft is expected to burn up, but late‑stage design changes mean some debris could survive and fall along its equatorial ground track.