Latest News About Space Junk and Orbital Debris

SpaceX has established a debris hotline and a special email address to aid folks who may have found fallen pieces of the company's hardware.

A Florida family has filed a claim with NASA after discarded components from the International Space Station crashed through their house.

A discarded Japanese rocket was recently imaged up close by the ADRAS-J mission.

Japan plans to launch the world's first wooden satellite this year, in an effort to reduce the environmental impacts of reentering spacecraft.

A large piece of debris was found on a mountainside in North Carolina last week, suspected to be left over from the reentry of SpaceX's Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station.

Two Chinese astronauts spent about 8.5 hours outside the Tiangong space station today (May 28), setting a new spacewalk-duration record for the country.

ESA and some of its member states have signed the non-binding Zero Debris Charter, committing themselves to take steps to help tackle the orbital debris problem.

New algorithms are being developed to automatically monitor satellites and prevent collisions in cislunar space, the realm between Earth and the moon.

A new report by NASA outlines the most promising approaches to keeping the space around Earth safe and usable for future generations.

The Space Trash Signs project has created "constellations" made of defunct satellites and old rocket parts to draw attention to the worsening space debris problem.