A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...

For more than 20 years, the Landsat 7 satellite circled Earth every 99 minutes or so, capturing images of almost all the planet’s surface every 16 days. One of many craft that observed the changing ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Cleaning up a dirty kitchen or bedroom is one thing but when the mess is in space, the problem becomes infinitely more difficult to solve. “We have a big space junk problem that's ...

There is a lot of space junk orbiting Earth. Norwegian researchers believe that in the future, there will be a market for its removal, and have developed an entirely new type of robot vision that will ...

BERLIN — Nets, harpoons and killer robots could become weapons of choice to hunt down the space junk threatening crucial communications satellites currently in orbit round Earth, scientists said ...

An American space firm aims to use United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX rockets to launch orbiting robots next year, 2023, according to a report by Insider. Four robots are now being built by the ...