Portal Space Systems is partnering with Paladin Space on a commercial service that would round up and dispose of orbital debris.

Within hours of a challenge to their growing alliance in space, NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, demonstrated their resolve to sustain a hard fought partnership in the support of ...

When a Russian satellite shattered in orbit, the fragments did not simply drift away into the void. They spread into busy traffic lanes of low Earth orbit, forcing astronauts to scramble for shelter ...

The original return plan was scrapped because a window in the Shenzhou-20 capsule had tiny cracks, most likely caused by impact from space debris, the space agency said on Friday. View on euronews ...

For instance, and this would be very, very bad: a puncture wound. In the vacuum of space, the amount of debris—spent rocket stages, splintered satellites, micrometeoroids—numbers in the millions, all ...